Mapping class groups of simply connected high-dimensional manifolds need not be arithmetic (Q784227)
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Mapping class groups of simply connected high-dimensional manifolds need not be arithmetic (English)
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3 August 2020
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The authors show that a connected sum of a product of spheres can have a mapping class group that is not residually finite. In particular, it is not commensurable to an arithmetic group. Superficially, this seems to contradict Sullivan's result that the mapping class group of a simply-connected high-dimensional manifold is commensurable with an arithmetic group. The puzzle is resolved by the observation that the term `commensurable' has changed its meaning over time: passage to finite index subgroups has always been essential, but Sullivan allowed extensions with a finite kernel as well.
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