Faithful group actions and Schreier graphs

Abstract

Each action of a finitely generated group on a set uniquely defines a labelled directed graph called the Schreier graph of the action. Schreier graphs are used mainly as a tool to establish geometrical and dynamical properties of corresponding group actions. In particilar, they are widely used in order to check amenability of different classed of groups. In the present paper Schreier graphs are utilized to construct new examples of faithful actions of free products of groups. Using Schreier graphs of group actions a sufficient condition for a group action to be faithful is presented. This result is applied to finite automaton actions on spaces of words i.e. actions defined by finite automata over finite alphabets. It is shown how to construct new faithful automaton presentations of groups upon given such a presentation. As an example a new countable series of faithful finite automaton presentations of free products of finite groups is constructed. The obtained results can be regarded as another way to construct new faithful actions of groups as soon as at least one such an action is provided.