Group generated by half transvections. (Q2493448)

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Group generated by half transvections.
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    Group generated by half transvections. (English)
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    14 June 2006
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    The group \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\) acts on the circle consisting of rays from the origin in \(\mathbb{R}^2\). Every nontrivial parabolic element (transvection) has 2 fixed points. The restriction of the action to one of the invariant arcs extended by the identity on the other arc is called a half transvection. It is shown that the group \(G\) generated by half transvections is isomorphic to the Higman-Thompson group \(T\) which was known to be a finitely presented infinite simple group. Using the isomorphism, new finite presentations of \(T\) are obtained.
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    half transvections
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    parabolic elements
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    Higman-Thompson group
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    finitely presented infinite simple groups
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    finite presentations
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