Stabilizers in Higman-Thompson groups

Abstract: We investigate stabilizers of finite sets of rational points in Cantor space for the Higman-Thompson groups

V_{n, r}

. We prove that the pointwise stabilizer is an iterated ascending HNN extension of

V_{n, q}

for any

q g e q 1

. We also prove that the commutator subgroup of the pointwise stabilizer is simple, and we compute the abelianization. Finally, for each

n

we classify such pointwise stabilizers up to isomorphism.

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