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The Brin-Thompson groups sV are of type F_\infty

Group Theory 2014-03-19 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove that the Brin-Thompson groups sV, also called higher dimensional Thompson's groups, are of type F_\infty for all natural numbers s. This result was previously shown for s up to 3, by considering the action of sV on a naturally associated space. Our key step is to retract this space to a subspace sX which is easier to analyze.

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@article{arxiv.1207.4832,
  title  = {The Brin-Thompson groups sV are of type F_\infty},
  author = {Martin Fluch and Marco Marschler and Stefan Witzel and Matthew C. B. Zaremsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.4832},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Final version, in Pacific J. Math., 10 pages, 4 figures