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LEFT ORDERED AMENABLE AND LOCALLY INDICABLE GROUPS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

PETER A. LINNELL
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, 460 McBryde Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0123, USA; linnell@math.vt.edu
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Abstract

There has been interest recently concerning when a left ordered group is locally indicable. Chiswell and Kropholler proved that every left ordered solvable-by-finite group is locally indicable, while Bergman gave examples of left ordered groups which are not locally indicable. This paper proves that every left ordered elementary amenable group is locally indicable. Every solvable-by-finite group is elementary amenable, and every elementary amenable group is amenable. The author leaves it as an open problem as to whether every left ordered amenable group is locally indicable.

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Notes and Papers
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The London Mathematical Society 1999

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