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

DOI10.1112/S0024610799007905MaRDI QIDQ4487494zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Matthew G. Brin

Publication date 22 June 2000

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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

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

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