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On universal modular symbols

K-Theory and Homology 2021-08-24 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We clarify the relationship between works of Lee-Szczarba and Ash-Rudolph on the homology of the Steinberg module of a linear Tits building. This yields a simple proof of the Solomon-Tits theorem in this special case. We also give a (weak) relationship between this combinatorics and the one studied by van der Kallen, Suslin and Nesterenko to compute the homology of the general linear group with constant coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.1407.0475,
  title  = {On universal modular symbols},
  author = {Bruno Kahn and Fei Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.0475},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

On p. 3, replaced "compounded" with "compensated"

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