On the baker's map and the simplicity of the higher dimensional Thompson groups nV.

DOI10.5565/PUBLMAT_54210_07zbMATH Open1236.20034arXiv0904.2624MaRDI QIDQ987150FDOQ987150

Authors: Matthew G. Brin 

Publication date: 13 August 2010

Published in: Publicacions Matemàtiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the baker's map is a product of transpositions (particularly pleasant involutions), and conclude from this that an existing very short proof of the simplicity of Thompson's group V applies with equal brevity to the higher dimensional Thompson groups nV.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.2624

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zbMATH Keywords

finitely presented groupsThompson groupsinfinite simple groupsbaker mapsproducts of transpositions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Simple groups (20E32)

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• Some undecidability results for asynchronous transducers and the Brin-Thompson group $2V$
• Simple groups separated by finiteness properties
• Twisted Brin-Thompson groups
• The word problem of the Brin-Thompson group is \textsf{coNP}-complete
• A family of non-isomorphism results.
• Topological Full Groups of Étale Groupoids
• Étale groupoids arising from products of shifts of finite type
• Divergence functions of higher-dimensional Thompson's groups
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• Diffeomorphism groups of tame Cantor sets and Thompson-like groups

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