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

DOI10.1142/S1793525316500242MaRDI QIDQ2828060zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

Publication date 24 October 2016

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

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

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)

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.

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