Boundedness of certain automorphism groups of an open manifold

Tomasz Rybicki

Published 2009-12-23, updated 2010-06-16Version 4

It is shown that certain diffeomorphism or homeomorphism groups with no restriction on support of an open manifold with finite number of ends are bounded. It follows that these groups are uniformly perfect. In order to characterize the boundedness several conditions on automorphism groups of an open manifold are introduced. In particular, it is shown that the commutator length diameter of the automorphism group $\mathcal D(M)$ of a portable manifold $M$ is estimated by $2fragd_{\mathcal D(M)}+2$, where $fragd_{\mathcal D(M)}$ is the diameter of $\mathcal D(M)$ in the fragmentation norm.