Coloured Neretin groups (Q2319840)

Lederle establishes and utilises a connection between topological full groups of étale groupoids associated to one-sided shifts after \textit{H. Matui} [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 104, No. 1, 27--56 (2012; Zbl 1325.19001); J. Reine Angew. Math. 705, 35--84 (2015; Zbl 1372.22006)] and almost automorphism groups of trees after \textit{Yu. A. Neretin} [Russ. Acad. Sci., Izv., Math. 41, No. 2, 1072--1085 (1992; Zbl 0789.22036); translation from Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk, Ser. Mat. 56, No. 5, 1072--1085 (1992)] to construct compactly generated, locally compact totally disconnected groups that are virtually simple and do not have lattices. An étale groupoid is a small category in which all morphisms are isomorphisms and whose object and morphism space are topologised in such a way that all structure maps are continuous, and source and range are local homeomorphisms. The associated topological full group is defined as a subgroup of the homeomorphism group of the object space, which is typically a Cantor space. An almost automorphism of a locally finite tree \(T\) is an equivalence class of forest isomorphisms that arise from removing finite subtrees from \(T\). It can be viewed as a homeomorphism of the boundary of \(T\), which is also a Cantor space. Lederle shows, using the newly established connection above and Matui's theory, that the groups of almost automorphisms arising from certain Burger-Mozes universal groups [\textit{M. Burger} and \textit{S. Mozes}, Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 92, 113--150 (2000; Zbl 1007.22012)] have the desired, rare properties. The no-lattice argument follows the approach of [\textit{U. Bader} et al., Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 44, No. 1, 55--67 (2012; Zbl 1239.22007)]. In particular, Lederle provides a family of candidates of groups without invariant random subgroups.