Commutators in groups of piecewise projective homeomorphisms

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2018.04.006zbMATH Open1392.20023arXiv1509.04586OpenAlexW2964138952MaRDI QIDQ1639635FDOQ1639635

José Burillo, Yash Lodha, Lawrence Reeves

Publication date: 13 June 2018

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 2012 Monod introduced examples of groups of piecewise projective homeomorphisms which are not amenable and which do not contain free subgroups, and later Lodha and Moore introduced examples of finitely presented groups with the same property. In this article we examine the normal subgroup structure of these groups. Two important cases of our results are the groups $H$ and $G_0$. We show that the group $H$ of piecewise projective homeomorphisms of $mathbbR$ has the property that $$ is simple and that every proper quotient of $H$ is metabelian. We establish simplicity of the commutator subgroup of the group $G_0$, which admits a presentation with $3$ generators and $9$ relations. Further we show that every proper quotient of $G_0$ is abelian. It follows that the normal subgroups of these groups are in bijective correspondence with those of the abelian (or metabelian) quotient.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04586

zbMATH Keywords

Lodha-Moore groupspiecewise projective maps of the real linesimple commutator subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Simple groups (20E32)

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