Examples of expanding endomorphisms on fake tori (Q2921098)

The paper provides examples of the existence of expanding endomorphisms on fake tori. For a closed Riemannian manifold \(M\), a smooth map \(f:M\to M\) is called an expanding endomorphism if there exists a Riemannian metric \(\|\cdot\|\) on \(M\) such that \(\| D_f(v)\| > \| v\|\) for all nonzero tangent vectors \(v\). It is well known that if \(M\) admits an expanding endomorphism, then \(M\) is homeomorphic to an infranilmanifold.NEWLINENEWLINEIn [Invent. Math. 45, 175--179 (1978; Zbl 0396.58020)], \textit{F. T. Farrell} and \textit{L. E. Jones} showed that any connected sum of the standard \(d\)-dimensional torus and a \(d\)-dimensional homotopy sphere is a manifold that admits an expanding endomorphism. By the Alexander trick, such a connected sum is piecewise-linear homeomorphic to the standard \(d\)-dimensional torus. A \(d\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) is called a fake torus if \(M\) is homeomorphic but not piecewise-linear homeomorphic to the standard \(d\)-dimensional torus.NEWLINENEWLINEThe main result of the paper is that for each \(d \geq 7\), there exists a \(d\)-dimensional fake torus \(M\) that admits an expanding endomorphism \(f\). The fake torus \(M\) is a mapping torus, and the expanding endomorphism \(f\) is the composition of two self-covering maps of \(M\), where one of them is expanding along the fibers of the mapping torus, and the other is expanding transversely to the fibers.