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Presentations of generalisations of Thompson's group $V$

Group Theory 2018-07-25 v1

Abstract

We consider generalisations of Thompson's group VV, denoted by Vr(Σ)V_r(\Sigma), which also include the groups of Higman, Stein and Brin. It was shown by the authors in [20] that under some mild conditions these groups and centralisers of their finite subgroups are of type F\mathrm{F}_\infty. Under more general conditions we show that the groups Vr(Σ)V_r(\Sigma) are finitely generated and, under the mild conditions mentioned above, we see that they are finitely presented and give a recipe to find explicit presentations. For the centralisers of finite subgroups we find a suitable infinite presentation and then apply a general procedure to shorten this presentation. In the appendix, we give a proof of this general shortening procedure.

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@article{arxiv.1609.07058,
  title  = {Presentations of generalisations of Thompson's group $V$},
  author = {Conchita Martínez-Pérez and Francesco Matucci and Brita E. A. Nucinkis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.07058},
  year   = {2018}
}

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