Groups of piecewise linear homeomorphisms
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Abstract:
In this paper we study a class of groups which may be described as groups of piecewise linear bijections of a circle or of compact intervals of the real line. We use the action of these groups on simplicial complexes to obtain homological and combinatorial information about them. We also identify large simple subgroups in all of them, providing examples of finitely presented infinite simple groups.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1992 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 332 (1992), 477-514
- MSC: Primary 20F32; Secondary 20E32, 20J05, 55P20, 57M05, 57Q99
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1992-1094555-4
- MathSciNet review: 1094555