Characteristic classes of foliated surface bundles with area-preserving holonomy

DOI10.4310/JDG/1175266267MaRDI QIDQ877555zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Shigeyuki Morita, D. Kotschick

Publication date 24 April 2007

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409214, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1175266267

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classesfoliated surface bundleholonomysymplectic structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

Abstract: Making use of the extended flux homomorphism on the group of symplectomorphisms of a closed oriented surface of genus at least 2, we introduce new characteristic classes of foliated surface bundles with symplectic, equivalently area-preserving, total holonomy. These characteristic classes are stable with respect to the genus and we show that they are highly non-trivial. We also prove that the second homology of the group of Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms equipped with the discrete topology is very large.

Review text

Let \(\Sigma _g\) denote a closed oriented surface of genus \(g\geq 2\). The authors introduce new characteristic classes of foliated surface bundles with area preserving holonomy. These characteristic classes are stable with respect to \(g\) and they are highly nontrivial. The authors also prove that the second homology of the group \(\operatorname {Ham}\Sigma _g\) of Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms of \(\Sigma _g\), equipped with the discrete topology, is very large for all \(g\geq 2\).

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