A Nonamenable Finitely Presented Group of Piecewise Projective Homeomorphisms
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چکیده
In this article we will describe a finitely presented subgroup of the group of piecewise projective homeomorphisms of the real projective line. This in particular provides a new example of a finitely presented group which is nonamenable and yet does not contain a nonabelian free subgroup. It is in fact the first such example which is torsion free. We will also develop a means for representing the elements of the group by labeled tree diagrams in a manner which closely parallels Richard Thompson’s group F .
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