Mapping class groups of simply connected high-dimensional manifolds need not be arithmetic

DOI10.5802/CRMATH.61zbMATH Open1454.57022arXiv2105.11158OpenAlexW3045892858MaRDI QIDQ784227FDOQ784227

Manuel Krannich, Oscar Randal-Williams

Publication date: 3 August 2020

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well known that Sullivan showed that the mapping class group of a simply connected high-dimensional manifold is commensurable with an arithmetic group, but the meaning of "commensurable" in this statement seems to be less well known. We explain why this result fails with the now standard definition of commensurability by exhibiting a manifold whose mapping class group is not residually finite. We do not suggest any problem with Sullivan's result: rather we provide a gloss for it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.11158

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06)

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