The BNSR-invariants of the Stein group F_{2,3}

Publication date: 9 December 2020

Abstract: The Stein group

F_{2, 3}

is the group of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the unit interval with slopes of the form

2^{p} 3^{q}

(

p, q i n m a t h b b Z

) and breakpoints in

m a t h b b Z [f r a c 16]

. This is a natural relative of Thompson's group

F

. In this paper we compute the Bieri-Neumann-Strebel-Renz (BNSR) invariants

S i g m a^{m} (F_{2, 3})

of the Stein group for all

m i n m a t h b b N

. A consequence of our computation is that (as with

F

) every finitely presented normal subgroup of

F_{2, 3}

is of type

e x t r m F_{i} n f t y

. Another, more surprising, consequence is that (unlike

F

) the kernel of any map

F_{2, 3} o m a t h b b Z

is of type

e x t r m F_{i} n f t y

, even though there exist maps

F_{2, 3} o m a t h b b Z^{2}

whose kernels are not even finitely generated. In terms of BNSR-invariants, this means that every discrete character lies in

S i g m a^{i} n f t y (F_{2, 3})

, but there exist (non-discrete) characters that do not even lie in

S i g m a^{1} (F_{2, 3})

. To the best of our knowledge,

F_{2, 3}

is the first group whose BNSR-invariants are known exhibiting these properties.

This page was built for publication: The BNSR-invariants of the Stein group $F_{2,3}$