English

Permutation-based presentations for Brin's higher-dimensional Thompson groups $nV$

Group Theory 2022-09-28 v2

Abstract

The higher-dimensional Thompson groups nVnV, for n2n \geq 2, were introduced by Brin in 2005. We provide new presentations for each of these infinite simple groups. The first is an infinite presentation, analogous to the Coxeter presentation for the finite symmetric group, with generating set equal to the set of transpositions in nVnV and reflecting the self-similar structure of nn-dimensional Cantor space. We then exploit this infinite presentation to produce further finite presentations that are considerably smaller than those previously known.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1901.04409,
  title  = {Permutation-based presentations for Brin's higher-dimensional Thompson groups $nV$},
  author = {Martyn Quick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.04409},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

23 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in J Austral Math Soc

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