Spherical complexes attached to symplectic lattices

DOI10.1007/S10711-010-9553-0zbMATH Open1217.05227OpenAlexW3106231473MaRDI QIDQ540494FDOQ540494

Authors Wilberd van der Kallen, Eduard Looijenga 

Publication date 3 June 2011

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0883

zbMATH Keywords

Cohen-Macaulay posetintegral symplectic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on combinatorial structures (05E18) Classical groups (11E57) Stability for linear groups (19B14)

Abstract: To the integral symplectic group Sp(2g,Z) we associate two posets of which we prove that they have the Cohen-Macaulay property. As an application we show that the locus of marked decomposable principally polarized abelian varieties in the Siegel space of genus g has the homotopy type of a bouquet of (g-2)-spheres. This, in turn, implies that the rational homology of moduli space of (unmarked) principal polarized abelian varieties of genus g modulo the decomposable ones vanishes in degree g-2 or lower. Another application is an improved stability range for the homology of the symplectic groups over Euclidean rings. But the original motivation comes from envisaged applications to the homology of groups of Torelli type. The proof of our main result rests on a refined nerve theorem for posets that may have an interest in its own right.

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