Matt Clay Data-verified

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Professor / Department Chair

University of Arkansas

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-22

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8 h-index 60 pubs 280 cited

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Matt Clay is a Professor and Department Chair at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His research focuses on geometric group theory, with recent publications exploring topics such as right-angled Artin groups, mapping class groups, and projection complexes. He has investigated the minimal volume entropy of free-by-cyclic groups and the chain flaring and L2-torsion of these groups.

Clay has published 59 works with 262 citations and an h-index of 8. He has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for $29,664 to support the 2025 Redbud Topology Conference, where he served as Principal Investigator. His collaborations include work with Yo’av Rieck from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, with whom he shares one publication. Clay also maintains an active laboratory website.

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h-index: 8
Publications: 60
Citations: 280

Selected Publications

Bounded projections to the Z$\mathcal {Z}$‐factor graph (2025)

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Chain flaring and L2-torsion of free-by-cyclic groups (2023)

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Geometric Group Theory (2022)

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Hyperbolic quotients of projection complexes (2022)

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Right-angled Artin groups as normal subgroups of mapping class groups (2021)

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Minimal volume entropy of free-by-cyclic groups and 2-dimensional right-angled Artin groups (2021)

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