This paper initiates a
systematic study of the relation of commensurability of surface automorphisms, or
equivalently, fibered commensurability of 3-manifolds fibering over S1. We show that
every hyperbolic fibered commensurability class contains a unique minimal element.
The situation for toroidal manifolds is more complicated, and we illustrate a range of
phenomena that can occur in this context.
Keywords
commensurability, fibration, 3-manifold, mapping class
group