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Minimal volume entropy of mapping tori over 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2025-09-23 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We prove that the minimal volume entropy of mapping tori over oriented closed smooth 33-manifolds vanishes. Our approach uses a variation of the amenable category and a suitable version of the minimal volume entropy of a homology class introduced by Babenko and Sabourau.

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@article{arxiv.2509.17851,
  title  = {Minimal volume entropy of mapping tori over 3-manifolds},
  author = {Giuseppe Bargagnati and Alberto Casali and Francesco Milizia and Marco Moraschini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.17851},
  year   = {2025}
}

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32 pages + Appendix