On powers of the Euler class for flat circle bundles

DOI10.1142/S1793525318500061MaRDI QIDQ4599150zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sam Nariman

Publication date 18 December 2017

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00330

zbMATH Keywords

Euler classanalytic diffeomorphisms of the circleflat circle bundleHaefliger space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Classifying spaces for foliations; Gelfand-Fuks cohomology (57R32) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

Abstract: Apparently a lost theorem of Thurston states that the cube of the Euler class $e^{3}in{H}^6(BDif{f}_{omega}^{delta}(S^1);mathbbQ)$ is zero where $Dif{f}_{omega}^{delta}(S^1)$ is the analytic orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle with the discrete topology. This is in contrast with Morita's theorem that the powers of the Euler class are nonzero in $H^{\ast }(BDif{f}^{delta}(S^1);mathbbQ)$ where $Dif{f}^{delta}(S^1)$ is the orientation preserving $C^{infty}$- diffeomorphisms of the circle with the discrete topology. The purpose of this short note is to prove that the powers of the Euler class $e^{k}in{H}^{\ast }(BDif{f}_{omega}^{delta}(S^1);mathbbZ)$ in fact are nonzero in cohomology with integer coefficients. We also give a short proof of Morita's theorem.

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