An upper bound for the Tarski numbers of nonamenable groups of piecewise projective homeomorphisms

DOI10.1142/S0218196717500151zbMATH Open1367.43001arXiv1604.05997OpenAlexW2964139739MaRDI QIDQ5269896FDOQ5269896

Yash Lodha

Publication date: 28 June 2017

Published in: International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Tarski number of a non amenable group is the smallest number of pieces needed for a paradoxical decomposition of the group. Non amenable groups of piecewise projective homeomorphisms were introduced by Monod, and non amenable finitely presented groups of piecewise projective homeomorphisms were introduced by the author in joint work with Justin Moore. These groups do not contain non abelian free subgroups. In this article we prove that the Tarski number of all groups in both families is at most 25. In particular we demonstrate the existence of a paradoxical decomposition with 25 pieces. Our argument also applies to any group of piecewise projective homeomorphisms that contains as a subgroup the group of piecewise $PS{L}_2(mathbbZ)$ homeomorphisms of $mathbbR$ with rational breakpoints, and an affine map that is a not an integer translation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05997

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zbMATH Keywords

amenablefinitely presentedfree grouppiecewiseprojectivetorsion freeTarski number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07)

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• Non-triviality of the Poisson boundary of random walks on the group of Monod
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