Depth of free-by-cyclic groups
Group Theory
2026-02-12 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
For a free group automorphism, we prove that its poset of attracting lamination orbits is a canonical invariant of the associated mapping torus. That is, if a free-by-cyclic group splits as a mapping torus in two different ways, then the corresponding automorphisms have isomorphic posets of lamination orbits. Further, we show that the lamination depth, the size of the largest chain in this poset, is a commensurability invariant of the free-by-cyclic group.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.10433,
title = {Depth of free-by-cyclic groups},
author = {Spencer Dowdall and Yassine Guerch and Radhika Gupta and Jean Pierre Mutanguha and Caglar Uyanik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.10433},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
33 pages, 4 figures; comments welcome :)