Meta-nilpotent quotients of mapping-torus groups and two topological invariants of quadratic forms

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Authors Takefumi Nosaka

Publication date 19 August 2021

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05265, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.5082ojm

zbMATH Keywords

knotsmappingclass groupmeta-nilpotent quotientquadratic form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Nilpotent groups (20F18) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

Abstract: We determine the center of a meta-nilpotent quotient of a mapping-torus group. As a corollary, we introduce two invariants, which are quadratic forms, of knots and of mapping classes.

Review text

Let \(F=F_1\) be a free group and let \(F_k\) be the commutator subgroup \([F,F_{k-1}]\) defined inductively. The author calls a semi-direct product \(F/F_k\rtimes \mathbb Z\) a \textit{ meta nilpotent quotient}. In this paper, the center of \(F/F_3\rtimes \mathbb Z\) is determined which is interesting since \(F/F_3\rtimes \mathbb Z\) appears as mapping torus group. As an application, the author introduces a knot invariant of a quadratic form.

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