Bredon cohomological finiteness conditions for generalisations of Thompson groups
Author(s) -
Conchita Martı́nez-Pérez,
Brita E. A. Nucinkis
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
groups geometry and dynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.05
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1661-7215
pISSN - 1661-7207
DOI - 10.4171/ggd/211
Subject(s) - mathematics , pure mathematics , group (periodic table) , algebra over a field , mathematics education , organic chemistry , chemistry
We define a family of groups that generalises Thompson's groups $T$ and $G$ and also those of Higman, Stein and Brin. For groups in this family we descrine centralisers of finite subgroups and show, that for a given finite subgroup $Q$, there are finitely many conjugacy classes of finite subgroups isomorphic to $Q$. We use this to show that whenever defined, the T versions of these groups have a slightly weaker property, quasi-$\underline{\operatorname F}_\infty$, to that of a group possessing a finite type model for the classifying space for proper actions ${\underline{E}}G$ if and only if they posses finite type models for the ordinary classifying space. We also generalise some well-known properties of ordinary cohomology to Bredon cohomology.
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