Geometric structures related to the braided Thompson groups
Group Theory
2021-04-13 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
In previous work, joint with Bux, Fluch, Marschler and Witzel, we proved that the braided Thompson groups are of type . The proof utilized certain contractible cube complexes, which in this paper we prove are CAT(0). We then use this fact to compute the geometric invariants of the pure braided Thompson group . Only the first invariant was previously known. A consequence of our computation is that as soon as a subgroup of containing the commutator subgroup is finitely presented, it is automatically of type .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.02717,
title = {Geometric structures related to the braided Thompson groups},
author = {Matthew C. B. Zaremsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.02717},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
22 pages, 3 figures. v2: Removed Subsection 4.3, after a mistake came to light. This subsection was unrelated to the rest of the paper, so nothing else changed in any important ways