ELEMENTARY AMENABLE SUBGROUPS OF R. THOMPSON'S GROUP F

DOI10.1142/S0218196705002517zbMATH Open1110.20018arXivmath/0501085OpenAlexW3103752413MaRDI QIDQ5703665FDOQ5703665

Matthew G. Brin

Publication date: 8 November 2005

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

Abstract: The subgroup structure of Thompson's group F is not yet fully understood. The group F is a subgroup of the group PL(I) of orientation preserving, piecewise linear self homeomorphisms of the unit interval and this larger group thus also has a poorly understood subgroup structure. It is reasonable to guess that F is the "only" subgroup of PL(I) that is not elementary amenable. In this paper, we explore the complexity of the elementary amenable subgroups of F in an attempt to understand the boundary between the elementary amenable subgroups and the non-elementary amenable. We construct an example of an elementary amenable subgroup up to class (height) omega squared, where omega is the first infinite ordinal.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501085

zbMATH Keywords

amenabilitysolvable subgroupsThompson groupselementary amenable subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Generalizations of solvable and nilpotent groups (20F19) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Other classes of groups defined by subgroup chains (20F22)

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• Groups of fast homeomorphisms of the interval and the ping-pong argument
• Questions and remarks on discrete and dense subgroups of Diff(I)
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