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math.GR2025
Boone-Higman embeddings of and mapping class groups of punctured surfaces
James Belk, Francesco Fournier-Facio, James Hyde +1
We prove that the groups satisfy the Boone-Higman conjecture for all , meaning each embeds in a finitely presented simple group. In fact,…
math.GR2024
Finite Germ Extensions
James Belk, James Hyde, Francesco Matucci
We prove finiteness properties for groups of homeomorphisms that have finitely many "singular points", and we describe the normal structure of such groups. As an application, we pr…