Secondary characteristic classes for subgroups of automorphism groups of free groups

MaRDI QIDQ6268575zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Shigeyuki Morita, Takuya Sakasai, Masaaki Suzuki

Publication date 20 December 2015

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cohomology of groups (20J06) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

Abstract: By analyzing how the Borel regulator classes vanish on various groups related to $mathrmGL(n,mathrmZ)$, we define three series of secondary characteristic classes for subgroups of automorphism groups of free groups. The first case is the $mathrmIA$-automorphism groups and we show that our classes coincide with higher $mathrmFR$ torsions due to Igusa. The second case is the mapping class groups and our classes also turn out to be his higher torsions which are non-zero multiples of the Mumford-Morita-Miller classes of even indices. Our construction gives new group cocycles for these still mysterious classes. The third case is the outer automorphism groups of free groups of specific ranks. Here we give a conjectural geometric meaning to a series of unstable homology classes called the Morita classes. We expect that certain unstable secondary classes would detect them.

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