Chain flaring and L^{2}-torsion of free-by-cyclic groups

Abstract: We introduce a condition on the monodromy of a free-by-cyclic group,

G_{p} h i

, called the chain flare condition, that implies that the

L^{2}

-torsion,

h o^{(2)} (G_{p} h i)

, is non-zero. We conjecture that this condition holds whenever the monodromy is exponentially growing.

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