On subgroups of R. Thompson's group F and other diagram groups

DOI10.1070/SM1999V190N08ABEH000419zbMATH Open1095.20021arXivmath/0005114OpenAlexW2066477598MaRDI QIDQ4940754FDOQ4940754

Authors: Victor S. Guba, Mark Sapir 

Publication date: 27 February 2000

Published in: Sbornik: Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we continue our study of the class of diagram groups. Simply speaking, a diagram is a labelled plane graph bounded by a pair of paths (the top path and the bottom path). To multiply two diagrams, one simply identifies the top path of one diagram with the bottom path of the other diagram, and removes pairs of "reducible" cells. Each diagram group is determined by an alphabet $X$, containing all possible labels of edges, a set of relations $calR=u_i=v_{i}midi=1,2,\mathrm{...}$, containing all possible labels of cells, and a word $w$ over $X$ -- the label of the top and bottom paths of diagrams. Diagrams can be considered as 2-dimensional words, and diagram groups can be considered as 2-dimensional analogue of free groups. In our previous paper, we showed that the class of diagram groups contains many interesting groups including the famous R. Thompson group $F$ (it corresponds to the simplest set of relations $x=x^2$), closed under direct and free products and some other constructions. In this paper we study mainly subgroups of diagram groups. We show that not every subgroup of a diagram group is itself a diagram group (this answers a question from the previous paper). We prove that every nilpotent subgroup of a diagram group is abelian, every abelian subgroup is free, but even the Thompson group contains solvable subgroups of any degree. We also study distortion of subgroups in diagram groups, including the Thompson group. It turnes out that centralizers of elements and abelian subgroups are always undistorted, but the Thompson group contains distorted soluble subgroups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0005114

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zbMATH Keywords

Thompson group \(F\)nilpotent subgroupssoluble subgroupsAbelian subgroupsdistortions of subgroupssubgroups of diagram groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

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