Conjugacy in Thompson’s group 𝐹

Gill, Nick; Short, Ian

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11432-7

Conjugacy in Thompson’s group $F$
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Abstract:

We complete the program begun by Brin and Squier of characterising conjugacy in Thompson’s group $F$ using the standard action of $F$ as a group of piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the unit interval.

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