Mathematics – Group Theory
Scientific paper
2005-08-30
Semigroup Forum 80 (2010), 325-340
Mathematics
Group Theory
17 pages. Revised and improved; final journal version. Title changed
Scientific paper
We show that Thompson's group F is the symmetry group of the "generic
idempotent". That is, take the monoidal category freely generated by an object
A and an isomorphism A \otimes A --> A; then F is the group of automorphisms of
A.
Fiore Marcelo
Leinster Tom
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