Boone--Higman Embeddings for Contracting Self-Similar Groups

Abstract: We give a short proof that every contracting self-similar group embeds into a finitely presented simple group. In particular, any contracting self-similar group embeds into the corresponding R\"over--Nekrashevych group, and this in turn embeds into one of the twisted Brin--Thompson groups introduced by the first author and Matthew Zaremsky. The proof here is a simplification of a more general argument given by the authors, Collin Bleak, and Matthew Zaremsky for contracting rational similarity groups.