A lower bound on volumes of end-periodic mapping tori (Q6930180)

The authors give a lower bound on the volume of the compactified mapping torus of a strongly irreducible end-periodic homeomorphism \(f\) of a surface. The result, combined with the work in [\textit{E. Field} et al., J. Topol. 16, No. 1, 57--105 (2023; Zbl 1567.57023)], shows that the volume of the compactified mapping torus of \(f\) is comparable to the translation length of \(f\) on a connected component of the pants graph of the surface. The work in this paper is motivated by and extends work of Brock who showed in [\textit{J. F. Brock}, Commun. Anal. Geom. 11, No. 5, 987--999 (2003; Zbl 1084.32009)] that in the finite-type setting of volumes of mapping tori of pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms \(f\), the hyperbolic volume of the compactified mapping torus of \(f\) is comparable to the translation length of \(f\) acting on the pants graph of the surface.