Thurston norm, polytopes and splitting complexity

Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain, Monika Kudlinska, Pablo Sánchez-Peralta

Let $G$ be a finitely generated torsion-free group satisfying the Strong Atiyah Conjecture. Assuming that $b_1^{(2)}(G)=0$, we associate to each surjective integral character $\varphi$ t…