Characteristic classes of foliated surface bundles with area-preserving holonomy

DOI10.4310/JDG/1175266267zbMATH Open1115.57016arXivmath/0409214OpenAlexW1907046220WikidataQ115196382 ScholiaQ115196382MaRDI QIDQ877555FDOQ877555

Shigeyuki Morita, D. Kotschick

Publication date: 24 April 2007

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409214

zbMATH Keywords

holonomycharacteristic classessymplectic structurefoliated surface bundle

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)

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• On crossed homomorphisms on symplectic mapping class groups
• Stable homology of surface diffeomorphism groups made discrete
• Bounded cohomology of transformation groups
• The Calabi invariant and the Euler class
• Flat structures on surface bundles
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• A second cohomology class of the symplectomorphism group with the discrete topology

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