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We study actions of finitely generated groups on $\bbR$-trees under some stability hypotheses. We prove that either the group splits over some controlled subgroup (fixing an arc in particular), or the action can be obtained by gluing…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vincent Guirardel

In this article we study the K- and L-theory of groups acting on trees. We consider the problem in the context of the fibered isomorphism conjecture of Farrell and Jones. We show that in the class of residually finite groups it is enough to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-25 S. K. Roushon

We develop a notion of groups that act acylindrically and non-elementarily on simplicial trees, which we call acylindrically arboreal groups. We then prove a complete classification of when graph products of groups and the fundamental…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-16 William D. Cohen

We introduce forest diagrams to represent elements of Thompson's group F. These diagrams relate to a certain action of F on the real line in the same way that tree diagrams relate to the standard action of F on the unit interval. Using…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-30 James M. Belk , Kenneth S. Brown

A scale-multiplicative semigroup in a totally disconnected, locally compact group $G$ is one for which the restriction of the scale function on $G$ is multiplicative. The maximal scale-multiplicative semigroups in groups acting…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Udo Baumgartner , Jacqui Ramagge , George A. Willis

We investigate translation length functions for two-generated groups acting by isometries on $\Lambda$-trees, where $\Lambda$ is a totally ordered abelian group. In this context, we provide an explicit formula for the translation length of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Kamil Orzechowski

Bass-Serre theory provides a powerful framework for studying group actions on trees. While extremely effective for structural questions in group theory, it is less suited to the systematic construction of group actions with prescribed local…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Florian Lehner , Christian Lindorfer , Rögnvaldur G. Möller , Wolfgang Woess

Local actions (actions of a vertex stabiliser on the neighbours of that vertex) have become an important approach to group actions on trees since J. Tits' introduction in 1970 of the independence property (P) and especially since a 2000…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Colin D. Reid , Simon M. Smith

We present some partial results concerning a-T-menability of groups acting on trees. Various known results are given uniform proofs.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-15 Swiatoslaw R. Gal

Following the work done by Olshanskii for groups, we describe, for a given semigroup $S$, which functions $l : S \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ can be realized up to equivalence as length functions $g \mapsto |g|_{H}$ by embedding $S$ into a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-15 Tara Davis

Morgan and Culler proved that a minimal action of a free group on a tree is determined by its translation length function. We prove an analogue of this theorem for 2-dimensional right-angled Artin groups acting on CAT(0) rectangle…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-12 Ruth Charney , Max Margolis

The expansion method of Lie algebras by a semigroup or S-expansion is generalized to act directly on the group manifold, and not only at the level of its Lie algebra. The consistency of this generalization with the dual formulation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-07-13 Hernán Astudillo , Ricardo Caroca , Alfredo Pérez , Patricio Salgado

The monadic second-order theory of trees allows quantification over elements and over arbitrary subsets. We classify the class of trees with respect to the question: does a tree T have definable Skolem functions (by a monadic formula with…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Shmuel Lifsches , Saharon Shelah

We construct an action of the Thompson group F on a compact space built from pairs of infinite, binary rooted trees. The action arises as an F-equivariant compactification of the action of F by translations on one of its homogeneous spaces,…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Jeong Hee Hong , Wojciech Szymanski

This paper concerns a class of semigroups that arise as products $US$, associated to what we call `action pairs'. Here $U$ and $S$ are subsemigroups of a common monoid and, roughly speaking, $S$ has an action on the monoid completion $U^1$…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Scott Carson , Igor Dolinka , James East , Victoria Gould , Rida-e Zenab

This paper explores acylindrical actions on trees, building on previous works related to the mapping class group and projection complexes. We demonstrate that the quotient action of a $1$-acylindrical action of a group on a tree by an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Bratati Som , Daxun Wang

We introduce the notion of (Ramsey) action of a tree on a (filtered) semigroup. We then prove in this setting a general result providing a common generalization of the infinitary Gowers Ramsey theorem for multiple tetris operations, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Martino Lupini

A group is called $\Lambda$-free if it has a free Lyndon length function in an ordered abelian group $\Lambda$, which is equivalent to having a free isometric action on a $\Lambda$-tree. A group has a regular free length function in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 O. Kharlampovich , A. Myasnikov , D. Serbin

We generalize Exel's notion of partial group action to monoids. For partial monoid actions that can be defined by means of suitably well-behaved systems of generators and relations, we employ classical rewriting theory in order to describe…

General Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Megrelishvili , Lutz Schroeder

Let $G$ be a finitely generated group. Given two length functions $\ell$ and $m$ of irreducible $G$ actions on real trees $A$ and $B$, when is the point-wise sum $\ell + m$ again the length function of an irreducible $G$ action on a real…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Edgar A. Bering