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Richard Thompson's group F is the group of piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the unit interval with a finite number of break points, all at dyadic rational numbers (their denominators are powers of 2) and with slopes which are powers of 2.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Bronislaw Wajnryb , Pawel Witowicz

This paper demonstrates the uniformly finite homology developed by Block and Weinberger and its relationship to amenable spaces via applications to the Cayley graph of Thompson's Group F. In particular, a certain class of subgraph of F is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-11 Dan Staley

We prove that under two natural probabilistic models (studied by Cleary, Elder, Rechnitzer and Taback), the probability that a random pair of elements of Thompson's group $F$ generate the entire group is positive. We also prove that for any…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Gili Golan Polak

The groups QF, QT, and QV are groups of quasi-automorphisms of the infinite binary tree. Their names indicate a similarity with Thompson's well-known groups F, T, and V. We will use the theory of diagram groups over semigroup presentations…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Samuel Audino , Delaney R. Aydel , Daniel S. Farley

We use geometric techniques to investigate several examples of quasi-isometrically embedded subgroups of Thompson's group F. Many of these are explored using the metric properties of the shift map phi in F. These subgroups have simple…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Sean Cleary , Jennifer Taback

Following a procedure due to V. Jones, using suitably normalized elements in a Temperley-Lieb-Jones (planar) algebra we introduce a 3-parametric family of unitary representations of the Thompson's group $F$ equipped with canonical (vacuum)…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Valeriano Aiello , Arnaud Brothier , Roberto Conti

We describe a procedure for constructing a generalized Thompson group out of a family of groups that is equipped with what we call a cloning system. The previously known Thompson groups F, V, Vbr and Fbr arise from this procedure using,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Stefan Witzel , Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We prove that there exists a group which is not finitely generated, but admits a minimal sofic shift. This answers a question of Doucha, Melleray and Tsankov. The group is of the form $(F_4 \times F_2) \rtimes F_{\infty}$. The construction…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Ville Salo

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 family of infinite simple groups that we call \emph{twisted Brin-Thompson groups}, generalizing Brin's higher-dimensional Thompson groups $sV$ ($s\in\mathbb{N}$). We use twisted Brin-Thompson groups to prove a variety of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-17 James Belk , Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We discuss metric and combinatorial properties of Thompson's group T, including normal forms for elements and unique tree pair diagram representatives. We relate these properties to those of Thompson's group F when possible, and highlight…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Jose Burillo , Sean Cleary , Melanie Stein , Jennifer Taback

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

We describe some of the geometric properties of the automorphism group Aut(F) of Thompson's group F. We give realizations of Aut(F) geometrically via periodic tree pair diagrams, which lead to natural presentations and give effective…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Sean Cleary , José Burillo

In this paper we study the non-amenability question of the Thompson group $F$ from the $C^{*}$ algebra side. Using a characterization of amenability in this framework we set about evaluating the reduced norm of the averages $\frac{1}{n}\sum…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ionut Chifan , Gabriel Picioroaga

In 1984 Brown and Geoghegan proved that Thompson's group $F$ is of type $\textrm{F}_\infty$, making it the first example of an infinite dimensional torsion-free group of type $\textrm{F}_\infty$. Over the decades a different, shorter proof…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

The purpose of this paper is to study the properties of the irrational-slope Thompson's group $F_\tau$ introduced by Cleary in 1995. We construct presentations, both finite and infinite and we describe its combinatorial structure using…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-04 José Burillo , Brita Nucinkis , Lawrence Reeves

The paper consists of two parts. In the first one we show that a relatively hyperbolic group $G$ splits as a star graph of groups whose central vertex group is finitely generated and the other vertex groups are maximal parabolic subgroups.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-20 Victor Gerasimov , Leonid Potyagailo

In this paper we consider the $T$- and $V$- versions, $T_{\tau}$ and $V_{\tau}$ , of the irrational slope Thompson group $F_{\tau}$ considered in [3]. We give infinite presentations for these groups and show how they can be represented by…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-04 José Burillo , Brita Nucinkis , Lawrence Reeves

This paper studies when a pair of elements in F are the images of the standard generators of F under a self monomorphism.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-12-04 Bronlyn Wassink

We prove that thick groups (and more generally thick graphs) have trivial Floyd boundary. This shows a wide class of finitely generated groups that are non-relatively hyperbolic have trivial Floyd boundary. In addition to giving new…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Ivan Levcovitz