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Vanishing of universal characteristic classes for handlebody groups and boundary bundles

Jeff Giansiracusa, Ulrike Tillmann, Jeffrey Giansiracusa

Springer/TCMS, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 103 - 112

Swansea University Author: Jeffrey Giansiracusa

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Using certain Thom spectra appearing in the study of cobordism categories, we show that the odd half of the Miller-Morita-Mumford classes on the mappping class group of a surface with negative Euler characteristic vanish in integral cohomology when restricted to the handlebody subgroup. This is a sp...

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title Vanishing of universal characteristic classes for handlebody groups and boundary bundles
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Jeffrey Giansiracusa
title_short Vanishing of universal characteristic classes for handlebody groups and boundary bundles
title_full Vanishing of universal characteristic classes for handlebody groups and boundary bundles
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description Using certain Thom spectra appearing in the study of cobordism categories, we show that the odd half of the Miller-Morita-Mumford classes on the mappping class group of a surface with negative Euler characteristic vanish in integral cohomology when restricted to the handlebody subgroup. This is a special case of a more general theorem valid in all dimensions: universal characteristic classes made from monomials in the Pontrjagin classes (and even powers of the Euler class) vanish when pulled back from BDiff(\partial W) to BDiff(W).
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