On Belk's classifying space for Thompson's group F

DOI10.1515/FORUM-2015-0148MaRDI QIDQ524710zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lucas Sabalka, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

Publication date 3 May 2017

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6534

zbMATH Keywords

classifying spaceconfiguration spaceThompson's group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: The space of configurations of n ordered points in the plane serves as a classifying space for the pure braid group PB_n. Elements of Thompson's group F admit a model similar to braids, except instead of braiding the strands split and merge. In Belk's thesis, a space CF was considered, of configurations of points on the real line allowing for splitting and merging, and a proof was sketched that CF is a classifying space for F. The idea there was to build the universal cover and construct an explicit contraction to a point. Here we start with an established CAT(0) cube complex X on which F acts freely, and construct an explicit homotopy equivalence between X/F and CF, proving that CF is indeed a K(F,1).

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