The higher-dimensional Thompson groups $nV$, for $n \geqslant 2$, were introduced by Brin [‘Presentations of higher dimensional Thompson groups’, J. Algebra 284 (2005), 520–558]. We provide new presentations for each of these infinite simple groups. The first is an infinite presentation, analogous to the Coxeter presentation for the finite symmetric group, with generating set equal to the set of transpositions in $nV$ and reflecting the self-similar structure of n-dimensional Cantor space. We then exploit this infinite presentation to produce further finite presentations that are considerably smaller than those previously known.

In this paper we study the group K2n(n+1)(F) where F is the function field of a complete, smooth, geometrically irreducible curve C over a number field, assuming the Beilinson–Soulé conjecture on weights. In particular, we compute the Beilinson regulator on a subgroup of K2n(n+1)(F), using the complexes constructed in Compositio Math. 96 (1995), pp. 197–247. We study the boundary map in the localization sequence for n=2 and n=3. We combine our results with results of Goncharov in order to obtain a complete description of the image of the regulator map on K4(3)(C) and K6(4)(C) (which have the same images as K4(C)$⊗ _{\Bbb Z}\, {\Bbb Q}$, and K6(C)$⊗ _{\Bbb Z}\, {\Bbb Q}$, respectively), independent of any conjectures.