scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1124073

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Authors Ralph Grieder

Publication date 31 August 1998

zbMATH Keywords

Farrell cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Review text

It is well known that any finite group can be injected into the mapping class group \(\Gamma_g\) of a closed, oriented surface of genus \(g\) for some \(g\). The standard symplectic representation of the mapping class group on the first homology of the underlying surface defines characteristic classes \(d_k\) in the homology of \(\Gamma_g\) and by pullback also for the finite group. The author studies here in detail the situation for cyclic groups \(C_p\) of prime order \(p\). The main result is that for any prime \(p\) and any \(k\geq 0\) there is an embedding of \(C_p\) into some \(\Gamma_g\) such that \(d_k\in H^{2k}{\mathcal C}_p\) is non-zero. By a celebrated theorem of J. Harer, the cohomology of \(\Gamma_g\) stabilizes to \(H^*\Gamma\), i.e. is independent of the genus for \(*< g/3\). As a corollary of the main result one obtains that \(d_k\in H^{2k}\Gamma\) is of infinite order (known) and indivisible (new). The main technical step is the construction of a group structure on the set of all representations of \(C_p\) induced by the standard symplectic representation up to some equivalence. These representations can be described by certain fixed point data. Techniques for their study have previously been developed by \textit{H. H. Glover, G. Mislin} and \textit{Y. Xia} [Invent. Math. 109, No. 3, 535-545 (1992; Zbl 0766.57001)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0882.00036].

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