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Finitely generated infinite simple groups of homeomorphisms of the real line

We construct examples of finitely generated infinite simple groups of homeomorphisms of the real line. Equivalently, these are examples of finitely generated simple left (or right) orderable groups. This answers a well known open question of Rhemtulla from ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2019

Group Approximation in Cayley Topology and Coarse Geometry, Part II: Fibred Coarse Embeddings

Masato Mimura

The objective of this series is to study metric geometric properties of disjoint unions of Cayley graphs of amenable groups by group properties of the Cayley accumulation points in the space of marked groups. In this Part II, we prove that a disjoint union ...

2019

Kaleidoscopic groups: permutation groups constructed from dendrite homeomorphisms

Nicolas Monod

Given a transitive permutation group, a fundamental object for studying its higher transitivity properties is the permutation action of its isotropy subgroup. We reverse this relationship and introduce a universal construction of infinite permutation group ...

POLISH ACAD SCIENCES INST MATHEMATICS-IMPAN2019

Multi-DoF Force Characterization of Soft Actuators

Jamie Paik, Sagar Dattatray Joshi

Soft actuators provide highly adaptable actuator options for applications in wearable devices, grippers and mobile robots due to their inherent compliance. However, this compliance causes soft actuators to have virtually infinite degrees of freedom (DoF) o ...

2019

Variations on a theme by Higman

Nicolas Monod

We propose elementary and explicit presentations of groups that have no amenable quotients and yet are SQ-universal. Examples include groups with a finite K (pi,1), no Kazhdan subgroups and no Haagerup quotients. ...

Elsevier2017

An upper bound for the Tarski numbers of nonamenable groups of piecewise projective homeomorphisms

Yash Lodha

The Tarski number of a nonamenable group is the smallest number of pieces needed for a paradoxical decomposition of the group. Nonamenable groups of piecewise projective homeomorphisms were introduced in [N. Monod, Groups of piecewise projective homeomorph ...

World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd2017

Representing groups against all odds

Maxime Gheysens

We investigate how probability tools can be useful to study representations of non-amenable groups. A suitable notion of "probabilistic subgroup" is proposed for locally compact groups, and is valuable to induction of representations. Nonamenable groups ad ...

EPFL2017

An indiscrete Bieberbach theorem: from amenable CAT$(0)$ groups to Tits buildings

Nicolas Monod

Non-positively curved spaces admitting a cocompact isometric action of an amenable group are investigated. A classification is established under the assumption that there is no global fixed point at infinity under the full isometry group. The visual bounda ...

2015

AN OBSTRUCTION TO l(p)-DIMENSION

Nicolas Monod, Henrik Densing Petersen

Let G be any group containing an infinite elementary amenable subgroup and let 2 < p < infinity. We construct an exhaustion of l(p) G by closed invariant subspaces which all intersect trivially a fixed non-trivial closed invariant subspace. This is an obst ...

Annales Inst Fourier2014

Infinite Presentability Of Groups And Condensation

Luc Guyot

We describe various classes of infinitely presented groups that are condensation points in the space of marked groups. A well-known class of such groups consists of finitely generated groups admitting an infinite minimal presentation. We introduce here a l ...

Cambridge University Press2014

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