The Sigma invariants of Thompson’s group
Robert Bieri
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, GermanyRoss Geoghegan
Binghamton University, USADessislava H. Kochloukova
IMECC - UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil

Abstract
Thompson’s group F is the group of all increasing dyadic PL homeomorphisms of the closed unit interval. We compute Σm(F) and Σm(F;ℤ), the homotopical and homological Bieri–Neumann–Strebel–Renz invariants of F, and show that Σm(F) = Σm(F;ℤ). As an application, we show that, for every m, F has subgroups of type Fm − 1 which are not of type FPm (thus certainly not of type Fm).
Cite this article
Robert Bieri, Ross Geoghegan, Dessislava H. Kochloukova, The Sigma invariants of Thompson’s group . Groups Geom. Dyn. 4 (2010), no. 2, pp. 263–273
DOI 10.4171/GGD/83