The dimension of the Torelli group

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-09-00643-2zbMATH Open1233.20033arXiv0709.0287MaRDI QIDQ3584343FDOQ3584343

Authors: Kai-Uwe Bux, Dan Margalit, Mladen Bestvina 

Publication date: 27 August 2010

Published in: Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the cohomological dimension of the Torelli group for a closed connected orientable surface of genus g at least 2 is equal to 3g-5. This answers a question of Mess, who proved the lower bound and settled the case of g=2. We also find the cohomological dimension of the Johnson kernel (the subgroup of the Torelli group generated by Dehn twists about separating curves) to be 2g-3. For g at least 2, we prove that the top dimensional homology of the Torelli group is infinitely generated. Finally, we give a new proof of the theorem of Mess that gives a precise description of the Torelli group in genus 2. The main tool is a new contractible complex, called the "complex of cycles", on which the Torelli group acts.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0287

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupscohomological dimensionTorelli groupscomplexes of minimizing cycles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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