Vanishing of universal characteristic classes for handlebody groups and boundary bundles

zbMATH Open1278.57033arXiv0910.5367MaRDI QIDQ387161FDOQ387161

Authors: Jeffrey Giansiracusa, U. Tillmann 

Publication date: 19 December 2013

Published in: Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using certain Thom spectra appearing in the study of cobordism categories, we show that the odd half of the Miller-Morita-Mumford classes on the mappping class group of a surface with negative Euler characteristic vanish in integral cohomology when restricted to the handlebody subgroup. This is a special case of a more general theorem valid in all dimensions: universal characteristic classes made from monomials in the Pontrjagin classes (and even powers of the Euler class) vanish when pulled back from BDiff(partial W) to BDiff(W).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5367

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stable homotopy theory, spectra (55P42) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Other types of cobordism (57R90)

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