activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

math.AT2026

Some closed manifolds that do not fibre over the circle

Sam Hughes, Ian Leary, Wolfgang Lueck

We construct closed manifolds with vanishing L^2-Betti numbers over every field) which do not virtually fibre over the circle. The class of fundamental groups that occurs is the la…

math.GR2026

Graphs and complexes of lattices

Sam Hughes

We study lattices acting on spaces via their commensurated subgroups. To do this we introduce the notions of a graph of lattices and a complex of lattices giving…

math.GR2025

Irreducible lattices fibring over the circle

Sam Hughes

We investigate the Bieri--Neumann--Strebel--Renz (BNSR) invariants of irreducible uniform lattices. In the case of a direct product of a tree and a Euclidean space we show that van…

math.GR2025

A note on asynchronously automatic groups and notions of non-positive curvature

Sam Hughes, Motiejus Valiunas

We prove groups acting cocompactly on locally finite trees with hyperbolic vertex stabilisers are asynchronously automatic. Combining this with previous work of the authors, we obt…

math.GR2025

On profinite rigidity amongst free-by-cyclic groups I: the generic case

Sam Hughes, Monika Kudlinska

We prove that amongst the class of free-by-cyclic groups, Gromov hyperbolicity is an invariant of the profinite completion. We show that whenever is a free-by-cyclic group with…

math.GR2025

Homology growth of polynomially growing mapping tori

Naomi Andrew, Yassine Guerch, Sam Hughes +1

We prove that residually finite mapping tori of polynomially growing automorphisms of hyperbolic groups, groups hyperbolic relative to finitely many virtually polycyclic groups, ri…