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We solve the twisted conjugacy problem on Thompson's group F. We also exhibit orbit undecidable subgroups of Aut(F), and give a proof that Aut(F) and Aut_+(F) are orbit decidable provided a certain conjecture on Thompson's group T is true.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-10 José Burillo , Francesco Matucci , Enric Ventura

We define half grid diagrams and prove every link is half grid presentable by constructing a canonical half grid pair (which gives rise to a grid diagram of some special type) associated with an element in the oriented Thompson group. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Yangxiao Luo , Shunyu Wan

We propose a new unifying framework for Thompson-like groups using a well-known device called operads and category theory as language. We discuss examples of operad groups which have appeared in the literature before. As a first…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Werner Thumann

We describe standard forms for elements of the higher-dimensional Thompson groups $nV$ arising from gridding subdivision processes. These processes lead to standard normal form descriptions for elements in these groups, and sizes of these…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-06 José Burillo , Sean Cleary , Brita Nucinkis

We prove that the tree almost automorphism groups admit exactly three commensurability classes of closed commensurated subgroups. Our proof utilizes an independently interesting characterization of subgroups of the tree almost automorphism…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Adrien Le Boudec , Phillip Wesolek

We summarize several results about non-simplicity, solvability and normal structure of finite groups related to the number of conjugacy classes appearing in the product or the power of conjugacy classes. We also collect some problems that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Antonio Beltrán , María José Felipe , Carmen Melchor

Let $G$ be a classical group defined over a finite field. We consider the following fundamental problems concerning conjugacy in $G$: 1. List a representative for each conjugacy class of $G$. 2. Given $x \in G$, describe the centralizer of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Giovanni De Franceschi , Martin W. Liebeck , E. A. O'Brien

There are several graphs defined on groups. Among them we consider graphs whose vertex set consists conjugacy classes of a group $G$ and adjacency is defined by properties of the elements of conjugacy classes. In particular, we consider…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-20 P. J. Cameron , F. E. Jannat , R. K. Nath , R. Sharafdini

We prove a variety of results about subgroups of Thompson's group $V$. First we prove that every action graph of a finitely generated subgroup of $V$ acting on an orbit in Cantor space is quasi-isometric to a tree. Then we prove that for a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-21 James Hyde , Rachel Skipper , Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We study a family of Thompson-like groups built as rearrangement groups of fractals from [BF19], each acting on a Wa\.zewski dendrite. Each of these is a finitely generated group that is dense in the full group of homeomorphisms of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Matteo Tarocchi

The cycling operation endows the super summit set $S_x$ of any element $x$ of a Garside group $G$ with the structure of a directed graph $\Gamma_x$. We establish that the subset $U_x$ of $S_x$ consisting of the circuits of $\Gamma_x$ can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Volker Gebhardt

We describe a Thompson-like group of homeomorphisms of the basilica Julia set. Each element of this group acts as a piecewise-linear homeomorphism of the unit circle that preserves the invariant lamination for the basilica. We develop an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-18 James Belk , Bradley Forrest

We give characterizations of the center, of conjugated and of commuting elements in a fundamental group of a graph of group. We deduce various results : on the one hand we give a sufficient condition for the center, the centralizers, and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean-Philippe Preaux

We describe pure braided versions of Thompson's group F. These groups, $BF$ and $\hat{BF}$, are subgroups of the braided versions of Thompson's group V, introduced by Brin and Dehornoy. Unlike V, elements of F are order-preserving self-maps…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Thomas Brady , Jose Burillo , Sean Cleary , Melanie Stein

In [Jo14] and [Jo18] Vaughan Jones introduced a construction which yields oriented knots and links from elements of the oriented Thompson group $\vec{F}$. In this paper we prove, by analogy with Alexander's classical theorem establishing…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Valeriano Aiello

We discuss condensed left-orderings and develop new techniques to show that the conjugacy relation on the space of left-orderings is not smooth. These techniques apply to the solvable Baumslag Solitar groups and to Thompson's group F.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Filippo Calderoni , Adam Clay

Let n be bigger than 1 and let A be an element in the Higman-Thompson group V_n. We study the structure of the centralizer of a in V_n through a careful analysis of the action of the group generated by A on the Cantor set C. We make use of…

This paper introduces gluing diagrams a combinatorial tool to construct homomorphisms between the shift pseudogroups of directed graphs and thus also their full groups of shifts. We will establish which of these diagrams produce…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Roman Gorazd

We describe a series of complexes that relate to the braid groups as the matching complexes relate to the symmetric groups. A modified construction applies as well to other complexes based on edge sets in graphs. We show that our…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kai-Uwe Bux

The convolution of indicators of two conjugacy classes on the symmetric group S_q is usually a complicated linear combination of indicators of many conjugacy classes. Similarly, a product of the moments of the Jucys--Murphy element involves…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Piotr Sniady