The braided Ptolemy-Thompson group is asynchronously combable

DOI10.4171/CMH/239zbMATH Open1266.57002arXivmath/0602490OpenAlexW2165206871MaRDI QIDQ550554FDOQ550554

Louis Funar, Christophe Kapoudjian

Publication date: 12 July 2011

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The braided Ptolemy-Thompson group $T^{*}$ is an extension of the Thompson group $T$ by the full braid group $B_{infty}$ on infinitely many strands. This group is a simplified version of the acyclic extension considered by Greenberg and Sergiescu, and can be viewed as a mapping class group of a certain infinite planar surface. In a previous paper we showed that $T^{*}$ is finitely presented. Our main result here is that $T^{*}$ (and $T$) is asynchronously combable. The method of proof is inspired by Lee Mosher's proof of automaticity of mapping class groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602490

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupsThompson groupbraidinfinite surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38)

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• The infinite associahedron and R. J. Thompson's group \(T\)
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• The braided Thompson's groups are of type \(F_\infty\)
• The braided Ptolemy-Thompson group is finitely presented.
• Asymptotically rigid mapping class groups. I: Finiteness properties of braided Thompson's and Houghton's groups

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