Relations in bounded cohomology

DOI10.1112/TOPO.12150zbMATH Open1481.20150arXiv1808.05711OpenAlexW2886222068MaRDI QIDQ5108909FDOQ5108909

James Farre

Publication date: 6 May 2020

Published in: Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explain some interesting relations in the degree three bounded cohomology of surface groups. Specifically, we show that if two faithful Kleinian surface group representations are quasi-isometric, then their bounded fundamental classes are the same in bounded cohomology. This is novel in the setting that one end is degenerate, while the other end is geometrically finite. We also show that a difference of two singly degenerate classes with bounded geometry is boundedly cohomologous to a doubly degenerate class, which has a nice geometric interpretation. Finally, we explain that the above relations completely describe the linear dependences between the `geometric' bounded classes defined by the volume cocycle with bounded geometry. We obtain a mapping class group invariant Banach sub-space of the reduced degree three bounded cohomology with explicit topological generating set and describe all linear relations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05711

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40)

Cited In (4)

• Relations in the quantum cohomology ring of \(G/B\)
• Relations in the piecewise-linear cobordism ring
• Bounds in cohomology
• A Matsumoto-Mostow result for Zimmer's cocycles of hyperbolic lattices

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