A projective resolution of the symplectic Steinberg module
Algebraic Topology
2026-05-19 v2 Group Theory
Geometric Topology
Abstract
Borel--Serre proved that for a number ring with fraction field , the symplectic group is a virtual duality group of degree quadratic in , and that the symplectic Steinberg module is its dualizing module. We construct a projective resolution of this symplectic Steinberg module as an -representation, that is similar in form to a resolution of Lee--Szczarba for the special linear group, but whose construction is more involved. When is a Euclidean number ring, we use this resolution to compute the top degree cohomology of principal level- congruence subgroups of , for primes such that the natural map is surjective.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.06499,
title = {A projective resolution of the symplectic Steinberg module},
author = {Urshita Pal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.06499},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
41 pages. Comments welcome! v2: some typos corrected; slightly rephrased some proposition statements