Twisted Brin-Thompson groups

DOI10.2140/GT.2022.26.1189MaRDI QIDQ6332833arXivWikidataFDO

Authors James Belk, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

Publication date 13 January 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/GT.2022.26.1189

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups (20E32) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

arXiv classification

math.GR

Abstract: We construct a family of infinite simple groups that we call emph{twisted Brin-Thompson groups}, generalizing Brin's higher-dimensional Thompson groups

s V

(

s i n m a t h b b N

). We use twisted Brin-Thompson groups to prove a variety of results regarding simple groups. For example, we prove that every finitely generated group embeds quasi-isometrically as a subgroup of a two-generated simple group, strengthening a result of Bridson. We also produce examples of simple groups that contain every

s V

and hence every right-angled Artin group, including examples of type

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

and a family of examples of type

e x t r m F_{n - 1}

but not of type

e x t r m F_{n}

, for arbitrary

n i n m a t h b b N

. This provides the second known infinite family of simple groups distinguished by their finiteness properties.

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