A Maslov cocycle for unitary groups

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDP023MaRDI QIDQ5850797zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Katrin Tent, Linus Kramer

Publication date 15 January 2010

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2281

zbMATH Keywords

2-cocyclecharacteristic classChern classskew-hermitian hyperbolic groupssymplectic hyperbolic groupsWitt group of hermitian forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Central extensions and Schur multipliers (19C09) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10) (K)-theory of quadratic and Hermitian forms (11E70)

Abstract: We introduce a 2-cocycle for symplectic and skew-hermitian hyperbolic groups over arbitrary fields and skew fields, with values in the Witt group of hermitian forms. This cocycle has good functorial properties: it is natural under extension of scalars and stable, so it can be viewed as a universal 2-dimensional characteristic class for these groups. Over R and C, it coincides with the first Chern class.

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