The Maximality of $T$ in Thompson's group $V$
Group Theory
2025-04-21 v2
Abstract
We show that R. Thompson's group is a maximal subgroup of the group . The argument provides examples of foundational calculations which arise when expressing elements of as products of transpositions of basic clopen sets in Cantor space .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.12621,
title = {The Maximality of $T$ in Thompson's group $V$},
author = {James Belk and Collin Bleak and Martyn Quick and Rachel Skipper},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12621},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
8 pages. To appear in Archiv der Math