The Ubiquity of Thompson's Group F in Groups of Piecewise Linear Homeomorphisms of the Unit Interval

DOI10.1112/S0024610799007905zbMATH Open0957.20025arXivmath/9705205MaRDI QIDQ4487494FDOQ4487494

Authors: Matthew G. Brin 

Publication date: 22 June 2000

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that Thompson's group F occurs with great frequency in the group of PL homeomorphisms of the unit interval.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9705205

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zbMATH Keywords

groups of finitary \(PL\)-homeomorphismsRichard Thompson's groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Ordered groups (06F15) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60) Simple groups (20E32)

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• Automorphisms of generalized Thompson groups
• Denominator bounds in Thompson-like groups and flows
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• Questions and remarks on discrete and dense subgroups of Diff(I)
• Classifying spaces from Ore categories with Garside families
• FACTORIZATIONS OF THE THOMPSON–HIGMAN GROUPS, AND CIRCUIT COMPLEXITY
• Groups of Piecewise Linear Homeomorphisms
• Schreier graphs of actions of Thompson's group \(F\) on the unit interval and on the Cantor set
• Irrational-slope versions of Thompson's groups \(T\) and \(V\)
• Subgroups of \(\mathrm{PL}_+ I\) which do not embed into Thompson's group \(F\)
• A proof that Thompson's groups have infinitely many relative ends.
• Number of conjugacy classes of torsion elements in Brown-Thompson groups
• Properties of Richard Thompson's group \(F\) related to Følner sets.
• On groups of PL-homeomorphisms of the real line
• Twisted conjugacy in PL-homeomorphism groups of the circle
• Conjugacy in Thompson's group \(F\).
• Higher dimensional Thompson groups.
• Thompson's group \(F\) and uniformly finite homology
• Random generation of Thompson group \(F\)
• Diagram groups and directed 2-complexes: homotopy and homology.
• Subgroups of R. Thompson's group \(F\) that are isomorphic to \(F\).
• The \(\mathcal R\)- and \(\mathcal L\)-orders of the Thompson-Higman monoid \(M_{k,1}\) and their complexity.
• A minimal non-solvable group of homeomorphisms.
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• ELEMENTARY AMENABLE SUBGROUPS OF R. THOMPSON'S GROUP F
• R. Thompson’s group and the amenability problem
• PRESENTATIONS, CONJUGACY, ROOTS, AND CENTRALIZERS IN GROUPS OF PIECEWISE LINEAR HOMEOMORPHISMS OF THE REAL LINE
• Addendum to ``Commensurations and subgroups of finite index of Thompson's group \(F\).
• Interprétation de l'arithmétique dans certains groupes de permutations affines par morceaux d'un intervalle
• An algebraic classification of some solvable groups of homeomorphisms.
• Thompson's group, Teichmüller spaces, and dual Riemann surfaces
• Determining solubility for finitely generated groups of PL homeomorphisms
• Complexity among the finitely generated subgroups of Thompson's group

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