Abstract
We consider generalisations of Thompson’s group V, denoted by
Funding statement: This work was partially funded by an LMS Scheme 4 Grant 41209. The first named author was supported by Gobierno de Aragón, European Regional Development Funds and MTM2010-19938-C03-03. The second author gratefully acknowledges the Fondation Mathématique Jacques Hadamard (ANR-10-CAMP-0151-02 – FMJH – Investissement d’Avenir) for the support received during the development of this work.
We would like to thank Dessislava Kochloukova for helpful discussions regarding Section 3, Claas Röver for getting us to think about Theorem 2.5 and the anonymous referee for a very carefully reading an earlier version of this paper. We are also indebted to this referee for pointing out Lemma 4.8 to us.
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