Stability in the homology of congruence subgroups.

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DOI10.1007/S00222-015-0581-0zbMATH Open1334.20045arXiv1201.4876OpenAlexW3104995453MaRDI QIDQ896255FDOQ896255

Andrew Putman

Publication date: 9 December 2015

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The homology groups of many natural sequences of groups Gnn=1infty (e.g. general linear groups, mapping class groups, etc.) stabilize as nightarrowinfty. Indeed, there is a well-known machine for proving such results that goes back to early work of Quillen. Church and Farb discovered that many sequences of groups whose homology groups do not stabilize in the classical sense actually stabilize in some sense as representations. They called this phenomena representation stability. We prove that the homology groups of congruence subgroups of GLn(R) (for almost any reasonable ring R) satisfy a strong version of representation stability that we call central stability. The definition of central stability is very different from Church-Farb's definition of representation stability (it is defined via a universal property), but we prove that it implies representation stability. Our main tool is a new machine for proving central stability that is analogous to the classical homological stability machine.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4876




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