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On the dynamics of (left) orderable groups

Andrés Navas (2010)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

We develop dynamical methods for studying left-orderable groups as well as the spaces of orderings associated to them. We give new and elementary proofs of theorems by Linnell (if a left-orderable group has infinitely many orderings, then it has uncountably many) and McCleary (the space of orderings of the free group is a Cantor set). We show that this last result also holds for countable torsion-free nilpotent groups which are not rank-one Abelian. Finally, we apply our methods to the case of braid...

On the existence of universal covering spaces for metric spaces and subsets of the Euclidean plane

G. R. Conner, J. W. Lamoreaux (2005)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We prove several results concerning the existence of universal covering spaces for separable metric spaces. To begin, we define several homotopy-theoretic conditions which we then prove are equivalent to the existence of a universal covering space. We use these equivalences to prove that every connected, locally path connected separable metric space whose fundamental group is a free group admits a universal covering space. As an application of these results, we prove the main result of this article,...

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