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We show that labelled Thompson groups and twisted Brin--Thompson groups are all acyclic. This allows us to prove several new embedding results for groups. First, every group of type $F_n$ embeds quasi-isometrically as a subgroup of an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Martin Palmer , Xiaolei Wu

We construct a "higher dimensional" version 2V of Thompson's group V. Like V it is an infinite, finitely presented, simple subgroup of the homeomorphism group of the Cantor set, but we show that it is not isomorphic to V by showing that the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-04 Matthew G. Brin

The group of $\mathcal C^1$-diffeomorphisms of any sparse Cantor subset of a manifold is countable and discrete (possibly trivial). Thompson's groups come out of this construction when we consider central ternary Cantor subsets of an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Louis Funar , Yurii Neretin

In this paper it is proved that the pure braided Thompson's group BF admits a bi-order, analog to the bi-order of the pure braid groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jose Burillo , Juan Gonzalez-Meneses

The braided Ptolemy-Thompson group $T^*$ is an extension of the Thompson group $T$ by the full braid group $B_{\infty}$ on infinitely many strands. This group is a simplified version of the acyclic extension considered by Greenberg and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-25 Louis Funar , Christophe Kapoudjian

Let $UVB_n$ and $UVP_n$ be the unrestricted virtual braid group and the unrestricted virtual pure braid group on n strands respectively. We study the groups $UVB_n$ and $UVP_n$, and our main results are as follows: for $n\geq 5$, we give a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Stavroula Makri

This article is dedicated to the study of asymptotically rigid mapping class groups of infinitely-punctured surfaces obtained by thickening planar trees. Such groups include the braided Ptolemy-Thompson groups $T^\sharp,T^\ast$ introduced…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Anthony Genevois , Anne Lonjou , Christian Urech

We define a quasihomomorphism from braid groups to the concordance group of knots and examine its properties and consequences of its existence. In particular, we provide a relation between the stable four ball genus in the concordance group…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Michael Brandenbursky , Jarek Kędra

We study the finiteness properties of the braided Higman--Thompson group $bV_{d,r}(H)$ with labels in $H\leq B_d$, and $bF_{d,r}(H)$ and $bT_{d,r}(H)$ with labels in $H\leq PB_d$ where $B_d$ is the braid group with $d$ strings and $PB_d$ is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Rachel Skipper , Xiaolei Wu

A group is boundedly acyclic if its bounded cohomology with trivial real coefficients vanishes in all positive degrees. Amenable groups are boundedly acyclic, while the first non-amenable examples were the group of compactly supported…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Francesco Fournier-Facio , Clara Loeh , Marco Moraschini

We prove that the braided Thompson group $BV$ has a linear divergence function. By the work of Dru\c{t}u, Mozes, and Sapir, this leads none of asymptotic cones of $BV$ has a cut-point.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Yuya Kodama

In this paper, we characterize the second bounded characteristic classes of foliated bundles in terms of the non-descendible quasi-morphisms on the universal covering of the structure group. As its application, we study the boundedness of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Morimichi Kawasaki , Shuhei Maruyama

The higher-dimensional Thompson groups $nV$, for $n \geq 2$, were introduced by Brin in 2005. We provide new presentations for each of these infinite simple groups. The first is an infinite presentation, analogous to the Coxeter…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Martyn Quick

Hughes has defined a class of groups, which we call FSS (finite similarity structure) groups. Each FSS group acts on a compact ultrametric space by local similarities. The best-known example is Thompson's group V. Guided by previous work on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-14 Daniel S. Farley , Bruce Hughes

In this article, we introduce a new family of groups, called Chambord groups and constructed from braided strand diagrams associated to specific semigroup presentations. It includes the asymptotically rigid mapping class groups previously…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Anthony Genevois , Anne Lonjou , Christian Urech

We investigate fixed-point properties of automorphisms of groups similar to R. Thompson's group $F$. Revisiting work of Gon\c{c}alves-Kochloukova, we deduce a cohomological criterion to detect infinite fixed-point sets in the…

In this paper, we determine the asymptotic dimension for all surface braid groups -- including those associated with non-orientable and infinite-type surfaces -- as well as for torsion-free poly-finitely generated surface groups. We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Porfirio L. León Álvarez , Israel Morales

We prove that the braided Thompson's groups $V_{\rm br}$ and $F_{\rm br}$ are of type $F_\infty$, confirming a conjecture by John Meier. The proof involves showing that matching complexes of arcs on surfaces are highly connected. In an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Kai-Uwe Bux , Martin Fluch , Marco Marschler , Stefan Witzel , Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

In his papers [2], [3] Brin introduced the higher dimensional Thompson groups nV which are generalizations to the Thompson's group V of self-homeomorphisms of the Cantor set and found a finite set of generators and relations in the case n =…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Johanna Hennig , Francesco Matucci

We study some aspects of the geometric representation theory of the Thompson and Neretin groups, suggested by their analogies with the diffeomorphism groups of the circle. We prove that the Burau representation of the Artin braid groups…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Kapoudjian , V. Sergiescu