A finitely presented group of piecewise projective homeomorphisms
Abstract
In this article we will describe a finitely presented subgroup of Monod's group of piecewise projective homeomorphisms of R. This in particular provides a new example of a finitely presented group which is nonamenable and yet does not contain a nonabelian free subgroup. It is in fact the first such example which is torsion free. We will also develop a means for representing the elements of the group by labeled tree diagrams in a manner which closely parallels Richard Thompson's group F.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2013
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1308.4250
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1308.4250
- Bibcode:
- 2013arXiv1308.4250L
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Group Theory
- E-Print:
- Formerly "A geometric solution to the von Neumann-Day problem for finitely presented groups". Section added on tree diagrams. Minor revisions elsewhere