Generalized Bowen-Franks Groups and Profinite Conjugacy for Hyperbolic Toral Automorphisms

Abstract

We show that a collection of generalized Bowen-Franks group, what we call the principal Bowen-Franks $R$-modules, form a complete set of $R$-module invariants for the equivalence relation of profinite conjugacy for similar hyperbolic toral automorphisms. We also show that these principal generalized Bowen-Franks $R$-modules are the principal invariants in a large class of generalized Bowen-Franks $R$-module invariants for similar hyperbolic automorphisms. We further show how the conjugacy invariant of cyclicity, when applied to hyperbolic toral automorphisms, is realized for profinite conjugacy.