{"title":"An irrational-slope Thompson’s group","authors":"J. Burillo, Brita Nucinkis, Lawrence Reeves","doi":"10.5565/PUBLMAT6522112","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"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 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 $F_\\tau$ are undistorted.","PeriodicalId":54531,"journal":{"name":"Publicacions Matematiques","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2018-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Publicacions Matematiques","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5565/PUBLMAT6522112","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
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 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 $F_\tau$ are undistorted.
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Publicacions Matemàtiques is a research mathematical journal published by the Department of Mathematics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 1976 (before 1988 named Publicacions de la Secció de Matemàtiques, ISSN: 0210-2978 print, 2014-4369 online). Two issues, constituting a single volume, are published each year. The journal has a large circulation being received by more than two hundred libraries all over the world. It is indexed by Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt Math., Science Citation Index, SciSearch®, ISI Alerting Services, COMPUMATH Citation Index®, and it participates in the Euclid Project and JSTOR. Free access is provided to all published papers through the web page.
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