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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1088532
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1088532 |
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21 November 1997
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Ptolemy group
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Grothendieck-Teichmüller group
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Thompson group
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braid groups
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Galois groups
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profinite groups
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profinite completions
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Ptolemy groupoids
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0.7281534671783447
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0.7274619340896606
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0.7216870188713074
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The authors note in Penner's Ptolemy group \(G\) the striking pentagonal relation that they had thought to be characteristic of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group. This double occurrence of the pentagonal relation would easily be explained if it were possible to construct a natural action of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group on the Penner group. However, the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group acts most naturally on profinite groups while the Ptolemy group (Richard Thompson's group on the circle) is infinite and simple, having therefore trivial profinite completion. The authors nevertheless manage to explain this double occurrence of the relation by constructing a natural action of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group on the profinite completion of the universal Ptolemy groupoid associated with Penner's group. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0868.00040].
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