Uniform simplicity of groups with proximal action

Abstract

We prove that groups acting boundedly and order-primitively on linear orders or acting extremely proximally on a Cantor set (the class including various Higman-Thomson groups; Neretin groups of almost automorphisms of regular trees, also called groups of spheromorphisms; the groups of quasi-isometries and almost-isometries of regular trees) are uniformly simple. Explicit bounds are provided.