Trivial cocycles and invariants of homology 3-spheres

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2008.09.002MaRDI QIDQ957982zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wolfgang Pitsch

Publication date 2 December 2008

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605725

zbMATH Keywords

Casson invariantHeegaard splittinghomology spheresTorelli group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in group theory (20J05)

Abstract: We study the relationship between trivial cocycles on the Torelli group and invariants of oriented integral homology 3-spheres. We give ncecessary and sufficient conditions for a function defined on the union of the Torelli groups to be an invariant of homology spheres. We apply this study to give a new purely algebraic construction of the Casson invariant and prove in this setting its surgery properties. As a by-product we get a new 2-torsion cohomology class in the second integral cohomology of the Torelli group.

Review text

The author studies the relationship between trivial 2-cocycles on the Torelli groups \(T_{g,1}\) of surfaces \(\Sigma_g\) with genus \(g \geq 3\) and invariants of oriented integral homology 3-spheres. A necessary and sufficient condition is given for such a family of cocycles satisfying certain conditions on the Torelli groups to provide a compatible family of trivializations of the Torelli groups which produces invariants of homology 3-spheres. This result is applied to give a purely algebraic construction of the Casson invariant, and a new torsion cohomology class in \(H^2(T_{g,1};\mathbb Z)\) is obtained by the pull back of a certain unique 2-cocycle \(J_g\) on \(\Lambda^3H_1(\Sigma_g;\mathbb Z)\) via the Johnson homomorphism, for which the Casson invariant is the invariant associated with the cocycles \(-2J_g\).

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