A simple description of Thompson's group F Export

@misc{citeulike:308120, abstract = {We show that Thompson's group F is the symmetry group of the "generic idempotent". That is, take the monoidal category freely generated by an object A and an isomorphism A \otimes A --\> A; then F is the group of automorphisms of A.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Fiore, Marcelo and Leinster, Tom}, citeulike-article-id = {308120}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508617}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0508617}, day = {30}, eprint = {math/0508617}, keywords = {categories, groups, monoids}, month = {Aug}, posted-at = {2005-08-31 10:04:29}, priority = {3}, title = {A simple description of Thompson's group F}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508617}, year = {2005} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:308120 L3 - citeulike-article-id:308120 N2 - We show that Thompson's group F is the symmetry group of the "generic idempotent". That is, take the monoidal category freely generated by an object A and an isomorphism A \otimes A --> A; then F is the group of automorphisms of A. TI - A simple description of Thompson's group F KW - categories KW - groups KW - monoids AU - Fiore, Marcelo AU - Leinster, Tom PY - 2005/Aug/30/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508617 ER -