Cohomology of the hyperelliptic Torelli group

DOI10.1007/S11856-012-0075-3MaRDI QIDQ375682zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan Margalit, Tara E. Brendle, Leah R. Childers

Publication date 31 October 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0448

zbMATH Keywords

cohomological dimensionhyperelliptic Torelli groupmapping class group of a surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: Let SI(S_g) denote the hyperelliptic Torelli group of a closed surface S_g of genus g. This is the subgroup of the mapping class group of S_g consisting of elements that act trivially on H_1(S_g;Z) and that commute with some fixed hyperelliptic involution of S_g. We prove that the cohomological dimension of SI(S_g) is g-1 when g > 0. We also show that H_g-1(SI(S_g);Z) is infinitely generated when g > 1. In particular, SI(S_3) is not finitely presentable. Finally, we apply our main results to show that the kernel of the Burau representation of the braid group B_n at t = -1 has cohomological dimension equal to the integer part of n/2, and it has infinitely generated homology in this top dimension.

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