Commensurated subgroups in tree almost automorphism groups

DOI10.4171/GGD/477MaRDI QIDQ1733158zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Adrien Le Boudec, Phillip R. Wesolek

Publication date 21 March 2019

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04162

zbMATH Keywords

groups acting on treesThompson groupscommensurated subgroupsalmost automorphisms of trees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Simple groups (20E32)

Abstract: We prove that the tree almost automorphism groups admit exactly three commensurability classes of closed commensurated subgroups. Our proof utilizes an independently interesting characterization of subgroups of the tree almost automorphism groups which contain only periodic elements in terms of the dynamics of the action on the boundary of the tree. Our results further cover several interesting finitely generated subgroups of the tree almost automorphism groups, including the Thompson groups $F$, $T$, and $V$. We show in particular that Thompson's group $T$ has no commensurated subgroups other than the finite subgroups and the entire group. As a consequence, we derive several rigidity results for the possible embeddings of these groups into locally compact groups.

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