Bounded and unbounded cohomology of homeomorphism and diffeomorphism groups

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Monod, Nicolas; Nariman, Sam
• 署名单位: Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; Purdue University System; Purdue University
• 刊物名称: INVENTIONES MATHEMATICAE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-9910
• DOI: 10.1007/s00222-023-01181-w
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1439-1475
• 关键词: smale conjecture; classifying-spaces; foliations; bundles; Commutators; invariant; HOMOLOGY

摘要

We determine the bounded cohomology of the group of homeomorphisms of certain low-dimensional manifolds. In particular, for the group of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the circle and of the closed 2-disc, it is isomorphic to the polynomial ring generated by the bounded Euler class. These seem to be the first examples of groups for which the entire bounded cohomology can be described without being trivial. We further prove that the C-r-diffeomorphisms groups of the circle and of the closed 2-disc have the same bounded cohomology as their homeomorphism groups, so that both differ from the ordinary cohomology of C-r-diffeomorphisms when r > 1. Finally, we determine the low-dimensional bounded cohomology of homeo-and dif-feomorphism of the spheres S-n and of certain 3-manifolds. In particular, we answer a question of Ghys by showing that the Euler class in H-4(Homeo(?)(S-3)) is unbounded.