The naive conjecture relating circular orders and circle actions

Let GG be a countable group. Write CO(G)\operatorname{CO}(G) for the space of circular orders on GG, and let Hom(G,Homeo+(S1))\operatorname{Hom}(G,\operatorname{Homeo}_+(S^1)) be the space of actions of GG on S1S^1 by orientation-preserving homeomorphisms. The naive conjecture. The space CO(G)\operatorname{CO}(G) has no isolated points if (or perhaps if and only if) Hom(G,Homeo+(S1))\operatorname{Hom}(G,\operatorname{Homeo}_+(S^1)) is connected. The statement is motivated by the case G=Z2G=\mathbb{Z}^2, for which both spaces have the corresponding properties; its general validity is not established here.

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Kathryn Mann and Cristobal Rivas, “Group orderings, dynamics, and rigidity”, arXiv:1607.00054 (2017).

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