An introduction to Thompson's group F: an overview of the group, recent results, open problems
Presenter
August 28, 2007
Keywords:
- geometric group theory
- Thompson's group F
- word problems (solvability)
- normal forms for Thompson's F Group
- binary trees
- tree-pair diagrams
- dyadic piecewise-linear functions
- commutator subgroup
- commuting pairs of elements
- finite rooted binary trees (and carets)
- word length algorithm
- penalty tree (for analysis of word length algorithm)
- minimal almost convexity
- quadratic Dehn function
- amenable groups
MSC:
- 20Fxx
- 20F10
- 20F05
- 20F38
- 20F69
- 05C05
- 20-xx
