scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1088532

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Authors Leila Schneps, Pierre Lochak

Publication date 21 November 1997

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsGalois groupsGrothendieck-Teichmüller groupprofinite completionsprofinite groupsPtolemy groupPtolemy groupoidsThompson group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois theory (11R32) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15)

Review text

The authors note in Penner's Ptolemy group \(G\) the striking pentagonal relation that they had thought to be characteristic of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group. This double occurrence of the pentagonal relation would easily be explained if it were possible to construct a natural action of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group on the Penner group. However, the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group acts most naturally on profinite groups while the Ptolemy group (Richard Thompson's group on the circle) is infinite and simple, having therefore trivial profinite completion. The authors nevertheless manage to explain this double occurrence of the relation by constructing a natural action of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group on the profinite completion of the universal Ptolemy groupoid associated with Penner's group. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0868.00040].

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