Symplectic characteristic classes.

MaRDI QIDQ1769633zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Cornelia Minette Busch

Publication date 4 April 2005

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

group cohomologyrepresentationsuniversal symplectic classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois cohomology of linear algebraic groups (11E72) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10)

Review text

Summary: We present a new proof of the fact that the universal symplectic classes \(d_j(\mathbb{Z})\in H^{2j}(\text{Sp}(\mathbb{Z}),\mathbb{Z})\) have infinite order. This proof uses only techniques from group cohomology. In order to obtain this result, we determine the representations \(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}\to\text{U}((p-1)/2)\) whose associated representation \(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}\to\text{Sp}(p-1,\mathbb{R})\) factors, up to conjugation, through a representation \(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}\to\text{Sp}(p-1,\mathbb{Z})\).

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