Bounded characteristic classes and flat bundles

DOI10.4310/JDG/1375124608MaRDI QIDQ366945zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Indira Chatterji, Guido Mislin, Christophe Pittet, Yves Cornulier

Publication date 25 September 2013

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4069

zbMATH Keywords

bounded characteristic classesderived group of the radicalstable commutator length, distortion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Homology and cohomology of Lie groups (57T10)

Abstract: Let G be a connected Lie group, G^d the underlying discrete group, and BG, BG^d their classifying spaces. Let R denote the radical of G. We show that all classes in the image of the canonical map in cohomology H^*(BG,R)->H^*(BG^d,R) are bounded if and only if the derived group [R,R] is simply connected. We also give equivalent conditions in terms of stable commutator length and distortion.

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