%0 Journal Article %T Nonsmoothable, locally indicable group actions on the interval %A Danny Calegari %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %R 10.2140/agt.2008.8.609 %X By the Thurston stability theorem, a group of C^1 orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms of the closed unit interval is locally indicable. We show that the local order structure of orbits gives a stronger criterion for nonsmoothability that can be used to produce new examples of locally indicable groups of homeomorphisms of the interval that are not conjugate to groups of C^1 diffeomorphisms. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2707v1