Higher-order signature cocycles for subgroups of mapping class groups and homology cylinders

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNR149MaRDI QIDQ2905262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tim D. Cochran, Peter D. Horn, Shelly Harvey

Publication date 27 August 2012

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4977, http://hdl.handle.net/1911/70175

zbMATH Keywords

Johnson homomorphism\(3\)-manifold invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36)

Abstract: We define families of invariants for elements of the mapping class group of S, a compact orientable surface. Fix any characteristic subgroup H of pi_1(S) and restrict to J(H), any subgroup of mapping classes that induce the identity modulo H. To any unitary representation, r of pi_1(S)/H we associate a higher-order rho_r-invariant and a signature 2-cocycle sigma_r. These signature cocycles are shown to be generalizations of the Meyer cocycle. In particular each rho_r is a quasimorphism and each sigma_r is a bounded 2-cocycle on J(H). In one of the simplest non-trivial cases, by varying r, we exhibit infinite families of linearly independent quasimorphisms and signature cocycles. We show that the rho_r restrict to homomorphisms on certain interesting subgroups. Many of these invariants extend naturally to the full mapping class group and some extend to the monoid of homology cylinders based on S.

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