Extending free actions of finite groups on unoriented surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2026.109853MaRDI QIDQ7285608zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Omar A. Cruz, Gustavo Ortega, Carlos Segovia

Publication date 22 June 2026

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.TOPOL.2026.109853

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Finite transformation groups (57S17)

Review text

A classical question is whether a free action of a finite group on a closed surface bounds equivariantly, though not necessarily freely. In the orientable case the question has been answered in great detail in [\textit{A. Ángel} et al., Algebr. Geom. Topol. 24, No. 3, 1623--1654 (2024; Zbl 1552.55005)], and the Bogomolov multiplier is the obstruction. The paper under review sets up the background material to study the question in the non-orientable category, i.e. non-orientable versions of the Schur and Bogomolov multipliers. The non-orientable Bogomolov multipliers vanish for abelian, dihedral, symmetric and alternating groups. There is a group of order \(64\) where it is not trivial. The work will be continued in [\textit{C. Segovia}, ``The unoriented Bogomolov multiplier, in preparation].

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