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Equivariant group presentations and the second homology group of the Torelli group

Geometric Topology 2020-06-09 v3 Algebraic Topology Group Theory

Abstract

We develop a theory of equivariant group presentations and relate them to the second homology group of a group. Our main application says that the second homology group of the Torelli subgroup of the mapping class group is finitely generated as an Sp(2g,Z)Sp(2g,\mathbb{Z})-module.

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@article{arxiv.1807.01338,
  title  = {Equivariant group presentations and the second homology group of the Torelli group},
  author = {Martin Kassabov and Andrew Putman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01338},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures; minor corrections; to appear in Math. Ann