We introduce and study the notion of a chain group of homeomorphisms of a one-manifold, which is a certain generalization of Thompson’s group F. Precisely, this is a group finitely generated by homeomorphisms, each supported on exactly one interval in a chain, and subject to a certain mild dynamical condition. The resulting class of groups exhibits a combination of uniformity and diversity. On ...

We introduce and study the notion of a chain group of homeomorphisms of a one-manifold, which is a certain generalization of Thompson’s group F. The resulting class of groups exhibits a combination of uniformity and diversity. On the one hand, a chain group either has a simple commutator subgroup or the action of the group has a wandering interval. In the latter case, the chain group admits a c...

1. In [3], we have shown that in a finite ZP-group G in which A and B are cyclic and A is its own normalizer, the commutator subgroup T of G is cyclic and G = AT with AC\T= I. This result can be used to determine the structure of arbitrary ZP-groups in which A and B are cyclic. If A is a subgroup of a group G, define the subgroup Ni(A) of G inductively by the formula Ni(A)=No(Ni~1(A)), and deno...

In this article we construct free groups and subgroups of finite index in the unit group of the integral group ring of a finite non-abelian group G for which every non-linear irreducible complex representation is of degree 2 and with commutator subgroup G′ a central elementary abelian 2-group.

A proof of freeness of the commutator subgroup of the fundamental group of a smooth irreducible affine curve over a countable algebraically closed field of nonzero characteristic. A description of the abelianizations of the fundamental groups of affine curves over an algebraically closed field of nonzero characteristic is also given.

We describe generators and defining relations for the commutator subgroup of topological full groups of minimal subshifts. We show that the world problem in a topological full group is solvable if and only if the language of the underlying subshift is recursive.

For n n at least 7 and equal to 5, we give generating sets of size 2 for the commutator subgroup braid group on strands. These are smallest p...