Secondary characteristic classes of surface bundles

DOI10.2140/AGT.2009.9.293MaRDI QIDQ1007210zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Søren Galatius

Publication date 20 March 2009

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402226

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classmapping class groupThom spaceToda bracket

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

Abstract: The Miller-Morita-Mumford classes associate to an oriented surface bundle $EoB$ a class $$. In this note we define for each prime $p$ and each integer $igeq1$ a secondary characteristic class $$. The mod $p$ reduction $lambd{a}_i(E)in{H}^{\ast }(B;F_p)$ has zero indeterminacy and satisfies $$.

Review text

A surface bundle is a smooth fibre bundle \(\pi :E \rightarrow B\) with closed oriented two-dimensional fibres. The Miller-Morita-Mumford characteristic classes associate to such a bundle classes \(\kappa_{i} \;\in \;H^{2i}(B; {\mathbb Z})\). The author shows that \(k_{i}\) is divisible by \(p^{2}\) if and only if \(i+1\) is divisible by \(p(p-1)\). The proof introduces new characteristic classes \(\lambda_{i}\) with the property that \(p \lambda_{i}(E) = \kappa_{i(p-1)-1}(E) \;\in \;H^*(B; {\mathbb Z}/p^{2})\).

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