Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, India
Abstract:
We show that the group of piecewise-linear homeomorphisms of having bounded slopes surjects onto the group of all quasi-isometries of . We prove that the following groups can be imbedded in : the group of compactly supported piecewise-linear homeomorphisms of , the Richard Thompson group , and the free group of continuous rank.