On the autonomous metric on the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of the 2-disc

Michael Brandenbursky; Jarek Kedra

doi:10.2140/agt.2013.13.795

On the autonomous metric on the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of the 2-disc

Michael Brandenbursky, Jarek Kedra

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Abstract

Let D2 be the open unit disc in the Euclidean plane and let G := Diff(D2,area) be the group of smooth compactly supported area-preserving diffeomorphisms of D2. For every natural number k we construct an injective homomorphism Zk ¿ G, which is bi-Lipschitz with respect to the word metric on Zk and the autonomous metric on G. We also show that the space of homogeneous quasimorphisms vanishing on all autonomous diffeomorphisms in the above group is infinite-dimensional.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	795-816
Number of pages	23
Journal	Algebraic & Geometric Topology
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2013.13.795
Publication status	Published - 28 Mar 2013

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Keywords

area-preserving diffeomorphisms
braid groups
quasimorphisms
quasi-isometric embeddings
bi-invariant metrics

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Brandenbursky, M., & Kedra, J. (2013). On the autonomous metric on the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of the 2-disc. Algebraic & Geometric Topology, 13(2), 795-816. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2013.13.795

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