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math.GR2026

Word length, Morse theory, and Vietoris-Rips complexes

Seth Hulbert, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We present a discrete Morse theoretic approach to proving high connectivity or contractibility of a Vietoris-Rips complex using distance to a fixed point as an initial measurement.…

math.GR2026

Finiteness properties and Higman's rope trick

Francesco Fournier-Facio, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

In 1961 Higman proved that every finitely generated recursively presented group embeds into a finitely presented group. In 2018 Leary proved that every finitely generated group emb…

math.GR2026

Action graphs, semiconjugacy, and non-embedding in Thompson's group

James Hyde, Rachel Skipper, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We prove a variety of results about subgroups of Thompson's group . First we prove that every action graph of a finitely generated subgroup of acting on an orbit in Cantor s…

math.GR2026

Abstract twisted Brin--Thompson groups

Francesco Fournier-Facio, Xiaolei Wu, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

Given a group acting faithfully on a set , one gets a simple group denoted , called a twisted Brin--Thompson group. In this paper we drop the faithfulness assumption,…

math.GR2025

Finiteness properties of stabilisers of oligomorphic actions

Francesco Fournier-Facio, Peter H. Kropholler, Robert Alonzo Lyman +1

An action of a group on a set is oligomorphic if it has finitely many orbits of -element subsets for all . We prove that for a large class of groups (including all groups of…

math.GR2025

Dense and empty BNSR-invariants of the McCool groups

Mikhail Ershov, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

An automorphism of the free group is called pure symmetric if it sends each generator to a conjugate of itself. The group of all pure symmetric automorphisms…

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

Contractible Vietoris-Rips complexes of

Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We give a new, short proof of a result of Virk, that the Vietoris-Rips complex of the group with the standard word metric is contractible at large enough scales. Thi…

math.GR2024

Hyperbolic actions of Thompson's group and generalizations

Sahana Balasubramanya, Francesco Fournier-Facio, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We study the poset of hyperbolic structures on Thompson's group and its generalizations for . The global structure of this poset is as simple as one would expec…

math.GR2024

Finite presentability of twisted Brin-Thompson groups

Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

Given a group acting faithfully on a set , we characterize precisely when the twisted Brin-Thompson group is finitely presented. The answer is that is finitely…

math.GR2024

Embedding finitely presented self-similar groups into finitely presented simple groups

Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We prove that every finitely presented self-similar group embeds in a finitely presented simple group. This establishes that every group embedding in a finitely presented self-simi…

math.GR2023

Hyperbolic groups satisfy the Boone-Higman conjecture

James Belk, Collin Bleak, Francesco Matucci +1

The 1973 Boone-Higman conjecture predicts that every finitely generated group with solvable word problem embeds in a finitely presented simple group. In this paper, we show that hy…

math.GR2023

Progress around the Boone-Higman Conjecture

James Belk, Collin Bleak, Francesco Matucci +1

A conjecture of Boone and Higman from the 1970's asserts that a finitely generated group has solvable word problem if and only if can be embedded into a finitely presented…

math.GR2023

Finitely presented simple groups with at least exponential Dehn function

Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We construct examples of finitely presented simple groups whose Dehn functions are at least exponential. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first such examples known. Our…

math.GR2022★ 1 cited

Finitely presented left orderable monsters

Francesco Fournier-Facio, Yash Lodha, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

A left orderable monster is a finitely generated left orderable group all of whose fixpoint-free actions on the line are proximal: the action is semiconjugate to a minimal action s…

math.GR2022★ 5 cited

Braided Thompson groups with and without quasimorphisms

Francesco Fournier-Facio, Yash Lodha, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We study quasimorphisms and bounded cohomology of a variety of braided versions of Thompson groups. Our first main result is that the Brin--Dehornoy braided Thompson group has…

math.GR2022

Non-inner amenability of the Higman-Thompson groups

Eli Bashwinger, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We prove that the Higman-Thompson groups and are non-inner amenable for all . This extends Haagerup and Olesen's result that Thompson's groups and $V=V_…

math.GR2022

Houghton-like groups from "shift-similar" groups

Brendan Mallery, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We introduce and study \emph{shift-similar} groups , which play an analogous role in the world of Houghton groups that self-similar groups play in the…

math.GR2022

A taste of twisted Brin-Thompson groups

Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

This note serves as a short and reader-friendly introduction to twisted Brin-Thompson groups, which were recently constructed by Belk and the author to provide a family of simple g…

math.GR2021★ 3 cited

Braiding groups of automorphisms and almost-automorphisms of trees

Rachel Skipper, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We introduce "braided" versions of self-similar groups and Röver--Nekrashevych groups, and study their finiteness properties. This generalizes work of Aroca and Cumplido, and the f…

math.GR2021

Random subcomplexes of finite buildings, and fibering of commutator subgroups of right-angled Coxeter groups

Eduard Schesler, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

The main theme of this paper is higher virtual algebraic fibering properties of right-angled Coxeter groups (RACGs), with a special focus on those whose defining flag complex is a…

math.GR2020

The BNSR-invariants of the Stein group

Robert Spahn, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

The Stein group is the group of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the unit interval with slopes of the form () and breakpoints in $\math…

math.GR2020★ 1 cited

The BNSR-invariants of the Lodha-Moore groups, and an exotic simple group of type

Yash Lodha, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

In this paper we give a complete description of the Bieri-Neumann-Strebel-Renz invariants of the Lodha-Moore groups. The second author previously computed the first two invariants,…

math.GR2020★ 13 cited

Twisted Brin-Thompson groups

James Belk, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We construct a family of infinite simple groups that we call \emph{twisted Brin-Thompson groups}, generalizing Brin's higher-dimensional Thompson groups (). We…