Central extensions of the Ptolemy-Thompson group and quantized Teichmuller theory
arXiv:0802.2996 · doi:10.1112/jtopol/jtp033
Abstract
The central extension of the Thompson group $T$ that arises in the quantized Teichmüller theory is 12 times the Euler class. This extension is obtained by taking a (partial) abelianization of the so-called braided Ptolemy-Thompson group introduced and studied in \cite{FK2}. We describe then the cyclic central extensions of $T$ by means of explicit presentations.
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