On the asynchronous rational group

DOI10.4171/GGD/523MaRDI QIDQ2286352zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Belk, Francesco Matucci, J. Hyde

Publication date 22 January 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01668

zbMATH Keywords

simple groupsfinite generationautomaton groupsasynchronous automata

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Algebraic theory of languages and automata (68Q70) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Simple groups (20E32)

Abstract: We prove that the asynchronous rational group defined by Grigorchuk, Nekrashevych, and Sushchanskii is simple and not finitely generated. Our proofs also apply to certain subgroups of the rational group, such as the group of all rational bilipschitz homeomorphisms.

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