HNN decompositions of the Lodha-Moore groups, and topological applications

DOI10.1142/S1793525316500242zbMATH Open1392.20037arXiv1410.8442OpenAlexW2963273309MaRDI QIDQ2828060FDOQ2828060

Authors: Matthew C. B. Zaremsky 

Publication date: 24 October 2016

Published in: Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Lodha-Moore groups provide the first known examples of type F_infty groups that are non-amenable and contain no non-abelian free subgroups. These groups are related to Thompson's group F in certain ways, for instance they contain it as a subgroup in a natural way. We exhibit decompositions of four Lodha-Moore groups, G, G_y, {_y}G and {_y}G_y, into ascending HNN extensions of isomorphic copies of each other, both in ways reminiscent to such decompositions for F and also in quite different ways. This allows us to prove two new topological results about the Lodha-Moore groups. First, we prove that they all have trivial homotopy groups at infinity; in particular they are the first examples of groups satisfying all four parts of Geoghegan's 1979 conjecture about F. Second, we compute the Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariant Sigma^1 for the Lodha-Moore groups, and get some partial results for the Bieri-Neumann-Strebel-Renz invariants Sigma^m, including a full computation of Sigma^2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8442

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zbMATH Keywords

Thompson groupfiniteness propertiesHNN extensionfundamental group at infinityBNS-invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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