Abelian quotients of mapping class groups of highly connected manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00208-015-1300-2zbMATH Open1343.55005arXiv1407.4680OpenAlexW1912062023MaRDI QIDQ289874FDOQ289874

Authors: Søren Galatius, Oscar Randal-Williams 

Publication date: 31 May 2016

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the abelianisations of the mapping class groups of the manifolds $W_g^{2n}=g(S^{n}imes{S}^n)$ for $ngeq3$ and $ggeq5$. The answer is a direct sum of two parts. The first part arises from the action of the mapping class group on the middle homology, and takes values in the abelianisation of the automorphism group of the middle homology. The second part arises from bordism classes of mapping cylinders and takes values in the quotient of the stable homotopy groups of spheres by a certain subgroup which in many cases agrees with the image of the stable $J$-homomorphism. We relate its calculation to a purely homotopy theoretic problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.4680

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping torusmapping class groupself diffeomorphismWall quadratic form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Primary cohomology operations in algebraic topology (55S05) Stable homotopy groups (55Q10) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) (H)-spaces and duals (55P45)

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