Groups of Homeomorphisms of One-Manifolds, I: Actions of Nonlinear Groups
Groups of Homeomorphisms of One-Manifolds, I: Actions of Nonlinear Groups
This self-contained paper is part of a series [FF2, FF3] on actions by diffeomorphisms of infinite groups on compact manifolds.The two main results presented here are:1. Any homomorphism of (almost any) mapping class group or automorphism group of a free group into Diff r + (S 1 ), r ≥ …