Characteristic classes of fiberwise branched surface bundles via arithmetic groups

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1516330969zbMATH Open1405.55016arXiv1606.07119OpenAlexW2964089376MaRDI QIDQ1990485FDOQ1990485

Bena Tshishiku

Publication date: 25 October 2018

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is about cohomology of mapping class groups from the perspective of arithmetic groups. For a closed surface $S$ of genus $g$, the mapping class group $Mod(S)$ admits a well-known arithmetic quotient $Mod(S)ightarrowSp(2g,Z)$, under which the stable cohomology of $Sp(2g,Z)$ pulls back to algebra generated by the odd MMM classes of $Mod(S)$. We extend this example to other arithmetic groups associated to mapping class groups and explore some of the consequences for surface bundles. For $G=Z/mZ$ and for a regular $G$-cover $Sightarrow{S}^{\prime }$ (possibly branched), a finite index subgroup $Gamma<Mod(S^{\prime })$ admits a homomorphism to an arithmetic group $S{p}^G<Sp(2g,Z)$. The induced map on cohomology can be understood using index theory. To this end, we describe a families version of the $G$-index theorem for the signature operator and apply this to (i) compute $H^2(S{p}^G;Q)ightarrow{H}^2(Gamma;Q)$, (ii) re-derive Hirzebruch's formula for signature of a branched cover (in the case of a surface bundle), (iii) compute Toledo invariants of surface group representations to $SU(p,q)$ arising from Atiyah--Kodaira constructions, and (iv) describe how classes in $H^{*}(S{p}^G;Q)$ give equivariant cobordism invariants for surface bundles with a fiberwise $G$ action, following Church--Farb--Thibault.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07119

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zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classes of bundles.Miller-Morita-Mumford characteristic classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Cohomology of groups (20J06) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

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