Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
N. R. Reilly has obtained an algebraic characterization of the compatible tight Riesz orders that can be supported by certain partially ordered groups [13; 14]. The purpose of this paper is to give a “geometric“ characterization by the use of ordered permutation groups. Our restrictions on the partially ordered groups will likewise be geometric rather than algebraic. Davis and Bolz [3] have done some work on groups of all order-preserving permutations of a totally ordered field; from our more general theorems, we will be able to recapture their results.