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A Refined scissors congruence group and the third homology of $\textrm{SL}_2$

K-Theory and Homology 2024-01-17 v2

Abstract

There is a natural connection between the third homology of SL2(A)\textrm{SL}_2(A) and the refined Bloch group RB(A)\mathcal{RB}(A) of a commutative ring AA. In this article we investigate this connection and as the main result we show that if AA is a universal GE2\textrm{GE}_2-domain such that 1A×2-1 \in A^{\times 2}, then we have the exact sequence H3(SM2(A),Z)H3(SL2(A),Z)RB(A)0H_3(\textrm{SM}_2(A),\mathbb{Z}) \to H_3(\textrm{SL}_2(A),\mathbb{Z}) \to \mathcal{RB}(A) \to 0, where SM2(A)\textrm{SM}_2(A) is the group of monomial matrices in SL2(A)\textrm{SL}_2(A). Moreover we show that RP1(A)\mathcal{RP}_1(A), the refined scissors congruence group of AA, naturally is isomorph with the relative homology group H3(SL2(A),SM2(A),Z)H_3(\textrm{SL}_2(A), \textrm{SM}_2(A),\mathbb{Z}).

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@article{arxiv.2307.08872,
  title  = {A Refined scissors congruence group and the third homology of $\textrm{SL}_2$},
  author = {Behrooz Mirzaii and Elvis Torres Pérez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08872},
  year   = {2024}
}