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

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)

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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• Automorphisms of generalized Thompson groups
• 2-chains and square roots of Thompson's group \(F\)
• Denominator bounds in Thompson-like groups and flows
• SOME GROUP THEORY PROBLEMS
• Groups of fast homeomorphisms of the interval and the ping-pong argument
• 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
• Schreier graphs of actions of Thompson's group \(F\) on the unit interval and on the Cantor set
• Groups of Piecewise Linear Homeomorphisms
• Irrational-slope versions of Thompson's groups \(T\) and \(V\)
• Subgroups of \(\mathrm{PL}_+ I\) which do not embed into Thompson's group \(F\)
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• 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
• Diagram groups and directed 2-complexes: homotopy and homology.
• Random generation of Thompson group \(F\)
• 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.
• The homology of Richard Thompson's group \(F\).
• PRESENTATIONS, CONJUGACY, ROOTS, AND CENTRALIZERS IN GROUPS OF PIECEWISE LINEAR HOMEOMORPHISMS OF THE REAL LINE
• ELEMENTARY AMENABLE SUBGROUPS OF R. THOMPSON'S GROUP F
• Addendum to ``Commensurations and subgroups of finite index of Thompson's group \(F\).
• R. Thompson’s group and the amenability problem
• An algebraic classification of some solvable groups of homeomorphisms.
• Interprétation de l'arithmétique dans certains groupes de permutations affines par morceaux d'un intervalle
• Thompson's group, Teichmüller spaces, and dual Riemann surfaces
• Determining solubility for finitely generated groups of PL homeomorphisms

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