Flat structures on surface bundles

DOI10.2140/AGT.2011.11.2207zbMATH Open1269.37021arXiv1103.3199OpenAlexW1972897325MaRDI QIDQ635407FDOQ635407

Authors: Jonathan Bowden 

Publication date: 19 August 2011

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that there exist flat surface bundles with closed leaves having non-trivial normal bundles. This leads us to compute the Abelianisation of surface diffeomorphism groups with marked points. We also extend a formula of Tsuboi that expresses the Euler class of a flat circle bundle in terms of the Calabi invariant of certain Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms to surfaces of higher genus and derive a similar formula for the first MMM-class of surface bundles with punctured fibre.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3199

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zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphism groupfoliationmapping class groupsymplectic topologygroup cohomologycharacteristic class of surface bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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• Conformally flat circle bundles over surfaces
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