Homological stability for spaces of embedded surfaces

DOI10.2140/GT.2017.21.1387MaRDI QIDQ2356948zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Federico Cantero, Oscar Randal-Williams

Publication date 7 June 2017

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3006, https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/256496

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classesembedding spaceshomological stabilitymapping class groupsscanningstable homologysubmanifoldssubsurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05)

Abstract: We study the space of oriented genus g subsurfaces of a fixed manifold M, and in particular its homological properties. We construct a "scanning map" which compares this space to the space of sections of a certain fibre bundle over M associated to its tangent bundle, and show that this map induces an isomorphism on homology in a range of degrees. Our results are analogous to McDuff's theorem on configuration spaces, extended from 0-manifolds to 2-manifolds.

Review text

This paper studies homological properties of the moduli space \(\mathcal{E}^+(\Sigma_g, M)\) of genus \(g\) oriented surfaces \(\Sigma_g\) in a fixed manifold \(M\). The space \(\mathcal{E}^+(\Sigma_g, M)\) is defined as the quotient of the space of embeddings Emb\((\Sigma_g,M)\) (with the \(C^\infty\) topology) by the action of the group of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms Diff\(_+(\Sigma_g)\). The authors construct a ``scanning map that compares this space with a space of formal surfaces in \(M\) (a space of sections of a certain bundle associated to the tangent bundle of \(M\)). Theorem 1.1 of the paper states that, if \(M\) is simply connected of dimension at least \(5\), this map induces an isomorphism in integral homology in degrees smaller than or equal to \(\frac{1}{3}(2g-2).\) This result can be regarded as the \(2\)-dimensional analog to \textit{D. McDuff}'s theorem for configuration spaces (spaces of embedded \(0\)-submanifolds) [Topology 14, 91--107 (1975; Zbl 0296.57001)]. In order to prove Theorem 1.1 the authors prove Theorem 1.3, a homological stability result analogous to \textit{J. Harer}'s result [Ann. Math. (2) 121, 215--249 (1985; Zbl 0579.57005)] and Theorem 1.4, a result analogous to the \textit{Madsen-Weiss} theorem [\textit{I. Madsen} and \textit{M. Weiss}, ibid. (2) 165, No. 3, 843--941(2007; Zbl 1156.14021)], which identifies the stable homology of these spaces of surfaces. To obtain these results the authors must consider surfaces with boundary and a scanning map for surfaces with boundary.

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