^2-torsion of free-by-cyclic groups

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAW057MaRDI QIDQ4588463zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 26 October 2017

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09258

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Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We provide an upper bound on the $el{l}^2$-torsion of a free-by-cyclic group, $-h{o}^{(2)}(mathbbFtime{s}_{Phi}mathbbZ)$, in terms of a relative train-track representative for $PhiinmathrmAut(mathbbF)$. Our result shares features with a theorem of L"uck-Schick computing the $el{l}^2$-torsion of the fundamental group of a 3-manifold that fibers over the circle in that it shows that the $el{l}^2$-torsion is determined by the exponential dynamics of the monodromy. In light of the result of L"uck-Schick, a special case of our bound is analogous to the bound on the volume of a 3-manifold that fibers over the circle with pseudo-Anosov monodromy by the normalized entropy recently demonstrated by Kojima-McShane.

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