The groups of Richard Thompson and complexity

Details The groups of Richard Thompson and complexity The groups of Richard Thompson and complexity

2002-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/math/0204292v2

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Group Theory

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We prove new results about the remarkable infinite simple groups introduced by Richard Thompson in the 1960s. We define the groups as partial transformation groups and we give a faithful representation in the Cuntz C*-algebra. For the finitely presented simple group T_fin (also known as V) we show that the word-length and the table size satisfy an n log n relation, just like the symmetric groups. We show that the word problem of T_fin belongs to the parallel complexity class AC^1 (a subclass of plynomial time). We show that the generalized word problem of T_fin is undecidable. We study the distortion functions of T_fin and we show that T_fin contains all finite direct products of finitely generated free groups as subgroups with linear distortion. As a consequence, up to polynomial equivalence of functions, the following three sets are the same: the set of distortions of T_fin, the set of all Dehn functions of finitely presented groups, and the set of time complexity functions of nondeterministic Turing machines.

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