{ "id": "0709.1987", "version": "v3", "published": "2007-09-13T03:57:11.000Z", "updated": "2008-04-25T09:16:01.000Z", "title": "Conjugacy, roots, and centralizers in Thompson's group $F$", "authors": [ "Nick Gill", "Ian Short" ], "comment": "11 pages. The exposition has been rewritten. We have added an extra section which analyses the structure of roots and centralizers; the title has been changed to reflect this. The paper has been submitted for publication", "categories": [ "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We complete the program begun by Brin and Squier of characterising conjugacy in Thompson's group $F$ using the standard action of $F$ as a group of piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the unit interval.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2008-04-25T09:16:01.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20E45", "37E05" ], "keywords": [ "thompsons group", "centralizers", "unit interval", "standard action", "piecewise linear homeomorphisms" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 11, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2007arXiv0709.1987G" } } }