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Geometric presentations for Thompson's groups

Group Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We prove that Thompson's groups FF and VV are the geometry groups of associativity, and of associativity together with commutativity, respectively. We deduce new presentations of FF and VV. These presentations lead to considering a certain subgroup of VV and an extension of this subgroup. We prove that the latter are the geometry groups of associativity together with the law x(yz)=y(xz)x(yz) = y(xz), and of associativity together with a twisted version of this law involving self-distributivity, respectively.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0407096,
  title  = {Geometric presentations for Thompson's groups},
  author = {Patrick Dehornoy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0407096},
  year   = {2007}
}