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2022-10Type
- Master Thesis
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We study the bounded cohomology of certain groups acting on the Cantor set. More specifically, we consider the full group of homeomorphisms of the Cantor set as well as Thompson's group $V$. We prove that both of these groups are boundedly acyclic, that is the bounded cohomology with trivial real coefficients vanishes in positive degrees. Combining this result with the already established $\mathbb{Z}$-acyclicity of Thompson's group $V$, will make $V$ the first example of a finitely generated group, in fact the first example of a group of type $F_\infty$, which is universally boundedly acyclic. Before proving bounded acyclicity, we gather various properties of the groups under consideration and certain subgroups thereof. As a consequence the proofs of bounded acyclicity will be relatively short. It will turn out that the approaches to handle these groups are very similar. This suggests that there could be a unifying approach which would imply the bounded acyclicity of a larger class of groups acting on the Cantor set, including the discussed ones. Show more
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Cornell UniversitySubject
Group Theory (math.GR); FOS: Mathematics; 18G90Organisational unit
03826 - Einsiedler, Manfred L. / Einsiedler, Manfred L.
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