Flat structures on surface bundles

DOI10.2140/AGT.2011.11.2207MaRDI QIDQ635407zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Bowden

Publication date 19 August 2011

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3199

zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphism groupfoliationmapping class groupsymplectic topologygroup cohomologycharacteristic class of surface bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

Abstract: We show that there exist flat surface bundles with closed leaves having non-trivial normal bundles. This leads us to compute the Abelianisation of surface diffeomorphism groups with marked points. We also extend a formula of Tsuboi that expresses the Euler class of a flat circle bundle in terms of the Calabi invariant of certain Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms to surfaces of higher genus and derive a similar formula for the first MMM-class of surface bundles with punctured fibre.

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