Geometric presentations for Thompson's groups

AbstractStarting from the observation that Thompson's groups F and V are the geometry groups respectively of associativity, and of associativity together with commutativity, we deduce new presentations of these groups. These presentations naturally lead to introducing a new subgroup S• of V and a torsion free extension B• of S•. We prove that S• and B• are the geometry groups of associativity together with the law x(yz)=y(xz), and of associativity together with a twisted version of this law involving self-distributivity, respectively