Entropy of automorphisms, homology and the intrinsic polynomial structure of nilpotent groups

DOI10.1090/CONM/590/11738zbMATH Open1321.20029arXiv1107.4129OpenAlexW1950063380MaRDI QIDQ2947508FDOQ2947508

Authors: Thomas Koberda 

Publication date: 24 September 2015

Published in: In the Tradition of Ahlfors-Bers, VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the word length entropy of automorphisms of residually nilpotent groups, and how the entropy of such group automorphisms relates to the entropy of induced automorphisms on various nilpotent quotients. We show that much like the structure of a nilpotent group is dictated to a large degree by its abelianization, the entropy of an automorphism of a nilpotent group is dictated by its entropy on the abelianization. We give some applications to the study of pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms of surfaces. In particular, we show that if $psi$ is a non--homological pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of a surface $Sigma$ with dilatation $K$ and $N$ is any nilpotent quotient of any finite index characteristic subgroup of $p{i}_1(Sigma)$ to which $psi$ descends, the entropy of $psi$ viewed as an automorphism of $N$ is bounded away from $K$. This answers a question of D. Sullivan.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4129

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zbMATH Keywords

induced automorphismsautomorphisms of residually nilpotent groupspseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms of surfacesword length entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Nilpotent groups (20F18)

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