Signature Cocycles on the Mapping Class Group and Symplectic Groups
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Publication:6310106
DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2020.106400arXiv1811.09357MaRDI QIDQ6310106
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Publication date: 22 November 2018
Abstract: Werner Meyer constructed a cocycle in which computes the signature of a closed oriented surface bundle over a surface, with fibre a surface of genus g. By studying properties of this cocycle, he also showed that the signature of such a surface bundle is a multiple of 4. In this paper, we study the signature cocycles both from the geometric and algebraic points of view. We present geometric constructions which are relevant to the signature cocycle and provide an alternative to Meyer's decomposition of a surface bundle. Furthermore, we discuss the precise relation between the Meyer and Wall-Maslov index. The main theorem of the paper, Theorem 6.6, provides the necessary group cohomology results to analyze the signature of a surface bundle modulo any integer N. Using these results, we are able to give a complete answer for N = 2, 4 and 8, and based on a theorem of Deligne, we show that this is the best we can hope for using this method.
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