The Basilica Thompson group is not finitely presented
Group Theory
2016-03-04 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We show that the Basilica Thompson group introduced by Belk and Forrest is not finitely presented, and in fact is not of type FP_2. The proof involves developing techniques for proving non-simple connectedness of certain subcomplexes of CAT(0) cube complexes.
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@article{arxiv.1603.01150,
title = {The Basilica Thompson group is not finitely presented},
author = {Stefan Witzel and Matthew C. B. Zaremsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01150},
year = {2016}
}
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14 pages, 4 figures