Farrell cohomology of low genus pure mapping class groups with punctures

DOI10.2140/AGT.2002.2.537MaRDI QIDQ1606291zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Qin Lu

Publication date 24 July 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207174, https://eudml.org/doc/123039, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol2/agt-2-26.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

fixed point dataperiodicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Other homology theories in algebraic topology (55N35) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: In this paper, we calculate the p-torsion of the Farrell cohomology for low genus pure mapping class groups with punctures, where p is an odd prime. Here, `low genus' means g=1,2,3; and `pure mapping class groups with punctures' means the mapping class groups with any number of punctures, where the punctures are not allowed to be permuted. These calculations use our previous results about the periodicity of pure mapping class groups with punctures, as well as other cohomological tools. The low genus cases are interesting because we know that the high genus cases can be reduced to the low genus ones. Also, the cohomological properties of the mapping class groups without punctures are closely related to our cases.

Review text

Farrell cohomology \(\widehat H^*\Gamma\) measures to what extent a group \(\Gamma\) of finite virtual cohomological dimension (vcd) fails to be of finite dimension, fails to be torsion free. Let \(\Gamma^i_g\) be the mapping class group of a genus \(g\) surface with \(i\) fixed punctures. It is well-known to be vcd in general and torsion-free for \(i\geq 2g+2\). The paper under review calculates \(\widehat H^*\Gamma^i_g\) for \(i> 0\) and \(g= 1,2,3\), giving all the details. By previous work of the author [\textit{Q. Lu}, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 155, 211-235 (2001; Zbl 0964.57017)], these groups are periodic with period two. The argument uses standard methods and relies on results by \textit{F. Cohen} [Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 443, 6-28 (1991; Zbl 0732.57003)] and \textit{Y. Xia} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 347, 3669-3670 (1996; Zbl 0855.57013)].

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