Braiding groups of homeomorphisms of Cantor sets

Abstract:

We will discuss some ways in which one can braid some classical subgroups of the homeomorphism group of the Cantor set. This includes Higman-Thompson groups and self-similar groups, as well as the topological finiteness properties of the resulting groups.

The talk will include some joint work with Xiaolei Wu and Matthew Zaremsky.

algebraic topologydifferential geometrydynamical systemsgroup theorygeometric topologysymplectic geometry

Audience: researchers in the topic

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