Groups of interval exchange transformations

Dahmani, François

Winter Braids IX (Reims, 2019), Winter Braids Lecture Notes (2019), Exposé no. 1, 22 p.

This is a survey on subgroups of the group of interval exchage transformations. We review definitions and a few properties of the groups of interval exchange transformations. We give examples of subgroups, and obstructions to realise certain subgroups.

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