The Birman-Craggs-Johnson homomorphism and abelian cycles in the Torelli group

DOI10.1007/S00208-006-0066-YzbMATH Open1140.57010arXivmath/0601163OpenAlexW2160088346MaRDI QIDQ884692FDOQ884692

Authors: Tara E. Brendle, Benson Farb 

Publication date: 7 June 2007

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the 1970s, Birman-Craggs-Johnson used Rochlin's invariant for homology 3-spheres to construct a remarkable surjective homomorphism sigma:I_{g,1}->B_3, where I_{g,1} is the Torelli group and B_3 is a certain F_2-vector space of Boolean (square-free) polynomials. By pulling back cohomology classes and evaluating them on abelian cycles, we construct 16g^4 + O(g^3) dimensions worth of nontrivial elements of H^2(I_{g,1}, F_2) which cannot be detected rationally. These classes in fact restrict to nontrivial classes in the cohomology of the subgroup K_{g,1} < I_{g,1} generated by Dehn twists about separating curves. We also use the ``Casson-Morita algebra and Morita's integral lift of the Birman-Craggs-Johnson map restricted to K_{g,1} to give the same lower bound on H^2(K_{g,1},Z).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601163

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zbMATH Keywords

Heegard splittingCasson-Morita algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

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