The sigma invariants of Thompson's group \(F\). (Q965089)

Summary: Thompson's group \(F\) is the group of all increasing dyadic PL homeomorphisms of the closed unit interval. We compute \(\Sigma^m(F)\) and \(\Sigma^m(F;\mathbb{Z})\), the homotopical and homological Bieri-Neumann-Strebel-Renz invariants of \(F\), and show that \(\Sigma^m(F)=\Sigma^m(F;\mathbb{Z})\). As an application, we show that, for every \(m\), \(F\) has subgroups of type \(F_{m-1}\) which are not of type \(\text{FP}_m\) (thus certainly not of type \(F_m\)).