Introductory notes on Richard Thompson's groups

zbMath0880.20027MaRDI QIDQ1355389

William J. Floyd, Walter R. Parry, James W. Cannon

Publication date: 8 February 1998

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

amenable groups finitely-presented groups unsolvable word problems finitely generated simple subgroups finitely-presented, infinite simple groups orientation-preserving, piecewise integral projective homeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups (20E32) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) FC-groups and their generalizations (20F24)

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