Finitely presented simple groups with no piecewise projective actions

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Main Authors: Brothier, Arnaud, Seelig, Ryan
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author Brothier, Arnaud
Seelig, Ryan
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Seelig, Ryan
contents We construct an explicit infinite family of pairwise non-isomorphic infinite simple groups of type $\mathrm{F}_\infty$ (in particular, they are finitely presented) that act faithfully on the circle by orientation-preserving homeomorphisms, but that admit no non-trivial piecewise affine nor piecewise projective actions on the projective line. Our examples are certain forest-skein groups which, informally, are a mixture of Richard Thompson's groups with Vaughan Jones' planar algebras.
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spellingShingle Finitely presented simple groups with no piecewise projective actions
Brothier, Arnaud
Seelig, Ryan
Group Theory
Dynamical Systems
20E32
We construct an explicit infinite family of pairwise non-isomorphic infinite simple groups of type $\mathrm{F}_\infty$ (in particular, they are finitely presented) that act faithfully on the circle by orientation-preserving homeomorphisms, but that admit no non-trivial piecewise affine nor piecewise projective actions on the projective line. Our examples are certain forest-skein groups which, informally, are a mixture of Richard Thompson's groups with Vaughan Jones' planar algebras.
title Finitely presented simple groups with no piecewise projective actions
topic Group Theory
Dynamical Systems
20E32
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18943