Free lattice-ordered groups represented as $o$-$2$ transitive $l$-permutation groups
Free lattice-ordered groups represented as $o$-$2$ transitive $l$-permutation groups
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自由格序群表示为 $o$-$2$ 传递 $l$-排列群
DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9947-1985-0787955-7
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
S. McCleary
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作者:
S. McCleary
It is easy to pose questions about the free lattice-ordered group Fv of rank tj > 1 whose answers2 are "obvious", but difficult to verify. For example: 1. What is the center of F,? 2. Is Fv directly indecomposable? 3. Does Fv have a basic element? 4. Is Fv completely distributive? Question 1 was answered recently by Medvedev, and both 1 and 2 by Arora and McCleary, using Conrad's representation of Fv via right orderings of the free group Gv. Here we answer all four questions by using a completely different tool: The (faithful) representation of Fv as an o-2-transitive /-permutation group which is pathological (has no nonidentity element of bounded support). This representation was established by Glass for most infinite tj, and is here extended to all q > 1. Curiously, the existence of a transitive representation for Fv implies (by a result of Kopytov) that in the Conrad representation there is some right ordering of Gv which suffices all by itself to give a faithful representation of Fv. For finite tj, we find that every transitive representation of Fv can be made from a pathologically o-2-transitive representation by blowing up the points to o-blocks; and every pathologically o-2-transitive representation of Fv can be extended to a pathologically o-2-transitive representation of F . Whether F has a pathologically o-2-transitive representation when tj is finite was described by Glass as a "basic unsolved problem" [7, p. 138]. Appropriately, establishing the existence of such a representation will make the four introductory questions exceedingly easy to answer. For background, see [7 or 8]. The present paper is almost completely independent of[l]. 1. Background. Let x be a subset of an /-group F. F is free on x if every function from x into an arbitrary /-group H can be extended uniquely to an /-homomorphism from F into H. Any two /-groups free on sets of the same cardinality r\ are /-isomorphic. F is free if it is free on some subset x. The rank of F means the cardinality of x, which is well defined by [1, Proposition 1]. Received by the editors February 21, 1984. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 06F15.