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Presentations for the higher dimensional Thompson's groups nV

Group Theory 2011-05-19 v1

Abstract

In his papers [2], [3] Brin introduced the higher dimensional Thompson groups nV which are generalizations to the Thompson's group V of self-homeomorphisms of the Cantor set and found a finite set of generators and relations in the case n = 2. We show how to generalize his construction to obtain a finite presentation for every positive integer n. As a corollary, we obtain another proof that the groups nV are simple (first proved by Brin in [4]).

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@article{arxiv.1105.3714,
  title  = {Presentations for the higher dimensional Thompson's groups nV},
  author = {Johanna Hennig and Francesco Matucci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.3714},
  year   = {2011}
}

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18 pages, 2 figures

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