An irrational-slope Thompson’s group

The purpose of this paper is to study the properties of the irrational-slope Thompson’s group Ft introduced by Cleary in [11]. We construct presentations, both finite and infinite, and we describe its combinatorial structure using binary trees. We show that its commutator group is simple. Finally, i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Burillo Puig, José|||0000-0002-1078-3614, Nucinkis, Brita, Reeves, Lawrence
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/365461
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/365461
https://dx.doi.org/10.5565/PUBLMAT6522112
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Group theory
Thompson’s group
Irrational-slope
Normal forms
Distortion
Grups infinits
Grups finits
Classificació AMS::20 Group theory and generalizations::20F Special aspects of infinite or finite groups
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Àlgebra::Teoria de grups
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Sumario:The purpose of this paper is to study the properties of the irrational-slope Thompson’s group Ft introduced by Cleary in [11]. We construct presentations, both finite and infinite, and we describe its combinatorial structure using binary trees. We show that its commutator group is simple. Finally, inspired by the case of Thompson’s group F, we define a unique normal form for the elements of the group and study the metric properties for the elements based on this normal form. As a corollary, we see that several embeddings of F in Ft are undistorted.