On the cohomology of the hyperelliptic mapping class group

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2004.02.005MaRDI QIDQ1880707zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Gries

Publication date 1 October 2004

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

Full work available at URL http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488193665235333

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsFarrell cohomologyYagita invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cohomology of groups (20J06) Other homology theories in algebraic topology (55N35) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Review text

The mapping class group of an orientable surface of genus \(g\) is well-known to be of finite virtual cohomological dimension and hence so is its subgroup \(\Delta_g\), the hyperelliptic mapping class group. The paper under review studies the torsion subgroups in \(\Delta_g\) for \(g> 1\) and their cohomological invariants. For finite groups, Tate cohomology is a powerful tool. Farrell cohomology is its generalisation to groups with finite virtual cohomological dimension. The author shows here that the hyperelliptic mapping class group \(\Delta_g\) has \(p\)-periodic Farrell cohomology for any odd prime \(p\), and determines the \(p\)-period. At \(p= 2\), the Farrell cohomology is not periodic. In this situation the \(\text{mod\,} p\) Yagita invariant, a generalization of the \(p\)-period, is defined. The author also determines the \(\text{mod\,}2\) Yagita invariant of \(\Delta_g\). Our knowledge here is thus more complete for the hyperelliptic mapping class group than for the mapping class group [\textit{H. H. Glover}, \textit{G. Mislin} and \textit{Y. Xia}, Invent. Math. 109, No. 3, 535--545 (1992; Zbl 0766.57001); Topology 33, No. 3, 557--574 (1994; Zbl 0828.57011)]. The methods used are fairly elementary but non-trivial. A careful analysis of fixed point data is applied and a powerful braid calculus for \(\Delta_g\) developed.

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