On powers of the Euler class for flat circle bundles

DOI10.1142/S1793525318500061MaRDI QIDQ4599150zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

analytic diffeomorphisms of the circle Euler class flat circle bundle Haefliger space

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) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05)

Abstract: Apparently a lost theorem of Thurston states that the cube of the Euler class

e^{3} i n H^{6} (B D i f f_{o m e g a}^{d e l t a} (S^{1}); m a t h b b Q)

is zero where

D i f f_{o m e g a}^{d e l t a} (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^{*} (B D i f f^{d e l t a} (S^{1}); m a t h b b Q)

where

D i f f^{d e l t a} (S^{1})

is the orientation preserving

C^{i n f t y}

- 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} i n H^{*} (B D i f f_{o m e g a}^{d e l t a} (S^{1}); m a t h b b Z)

in fact are nonzero in cohomology with integer coefficients. We also give a short proof of Morita's theorem.

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