Logic Seminar

Jim BelkCornell University
Tree Diagrams and Thompson Groups

Friday, September 3, 2021 - 2:45pm
Malott 206

In this talk, we will complete our basic survey of Thompson's group $F$ by introducing the action of $F$ on the unit interval and the associated tree diagrams. We will then move on from $F$ to discuss Thompson's groups $T$ and $V$, which were the first known examples of infinite, finitely presented simple groups.