%0 Journal Article %T Monoids that map onto the Thompson-Higman groups %A Jean-Camille Birget %J Mathematics %D 2010 %I arXiv %X A slight modification of the definition of the Thompson-Higman groups G_k1 and F_k1 leads to inverse monoids that map onto G_k1 (respectively F_k1), and that have interesting properties: they are finitely generated, and residually finite. These inverse monoids are closely related to the suffix expansion of G_k1 (respectively F_k1). %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0502v1