The Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariants via Newton polytopes

DOI10.1007/S00222-019-00919-9zbMATH Open1480.20101arXiv1802.07049OpenAlexW2971973187MaRDI QIDQ2290970FDOQ2290970

Authors: Dawid Kielak 

Publication date: 29 January 2020

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the Newton polytopes of determinants of square matrices defined over rings of twisted Laurent polynomials. We prove that such Newton polytopes are single polytopes (rather than formal differences of two polytopes); this result can be seen as analogous to the fact that determinants of matrices over commutative Laurent polynomial rings are themselves polynomials, rather than rational functions. We also exhibit a relationship between the Newton polytopes and invertibility of the matrices over Novikov rings, thus establishing a connection with the invariants of Bieri-Neumann-Strebel (BNS) via a theorem of Sikorav. We offer several applications: we reprove Thurston's theorem on the existence of a polytope controlling the BNS invariants of a $3$-manifold group; we extend this result to free-by-cyclic groups, and the more general descending HNN extensions of free groups. We also show that the BNS invariants of Poincar'e duality groups of type $mathttF$ in dimension $3$ and groups of deficiency one are determined by a polytope, when the groups are assumed to be agrarian, that is their integral group rings embed in skew-fields. The latter result partially confirms a conjecture of Friedl. We also deduce the vanishing of the Newton polytopes associated to elements of the Whitehead groups of many groups satisfying the Atiyah conjecture. We use this to show that the $L^2$-torsion polytope of Friedl-L"uck is invariant under homotopy. We prove the vanishing of this polytope in the presence of amenability, thus proving a conjecture of Friedl-L"uck-Tillmann.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07049

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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