English

Conjugacy, roots, and centralizers in Thompson's group $F$

Group Theory 2008-04-25 v3

Abstract

We complete the program begun by Brin and Squier of characterising conjugacy in Thompson's group FF using the standard action of FF as a group of piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the unit interval.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0709.1987,
  title  = {Conjugacy, roots, and centralizers in Thompson's group $F$},
  author = {Nick Gill and Ian Short},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1987},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

11 pages. The exposition has been rewritten. We have added an extra section which analyses the structure of roots and centralizers; the title has been changed to reflect this. The paper has been submitted for publication

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