An infinite genus mapping class group and stable cohomology

DOI10.1007/S00220-009-0728-1MaRDI QIDQ5962371zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Louis Funar, Christophe Kapoudjian

Publication date 22 September 2010

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506400

zbMATH Keywords

Infinite genus mapping class groupPressley-Segal classStable cohomologyThompson group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38)

Abstract: We exhibit a finitely generated group $M$ whose rational homology is isomorphic to the rational stable homology of the mapping class group. It is defined as a mapping class group associated to a surface $su$ of infinite genus, and contains all the pure mapping class groups of compact surfaces of genus $g$ with $n$ boundary components, for any $ggeq0$ and $n>0$. We construct a representation of $M$ into the restricted symplectic group $mS{p}_{res}({calH}_r)$ of the real Hilbert space generated by the homology classes of non-separating circles on $su$, which generalizes the classical symplectic representation of the mapping class groups. Moreover, we show that the first universal Chern class in $$ is the pull-back of the Pressley-Segal class on the restricted linear group $mG{L}_{res}(calH)$ via the inclusion $mS{p}_{res}({calH}_r)subsetmG{L}_{res}(calH)$.

Review text

The authors construct a finitely generated group \({\mathcal M}\) which contains all pure mapping class groups of compact surfaces with nonempty boundary components. The group \({\mathcal M}\) is defined as a certain mapping class group of a surface \(S_\infty\), where \(S_\infty\) is an infinite genus surface obtained from the boundary of a regular neighborhood of a regular \(3\)-valent tree by removing a small open disk for each edge of the tree and by gluing a one-holed torus along each resulting boundary component. The rational cohomology of \({\mathcal M}\) is isomorphic to the rational stable cohomology of the mapping class group. The group \({\mathcal M}\) maps onto the Thompson group \(V\). By generalizing the standard symplectic representation of the mapping class group of a compact surface, a representation of \({\mathcal M}\) into the restricted symplectic group \(\roman{Sp}_{\roman{res}}(\mathcal{H}_r)\) of the real Hilbert space generated by the homology classes of nonseparating simple closed curves on \(S_\infty\) is constructed. It is also shown that the first universal Chern class in \(H^2({\mathcal M},{\mathbb Z})\) is the pull-back of the Pressley-Segal class on the restricted linear group \(\roman{GL}_{\roman{res}}(\mathcal{H})\) via the inclusion \(\roman{Sp}_{\roman{res}}(\mathcal{H}_r) \subset \roman{GL}_{\roman{res}}(\mathcal{H})\).

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