The cobordism group of homology cylinders
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- Title
- The cobordism group of homology cylinders
- Authors
- Cha, JC; Stefan Friedl; Taehee Kim
- Date Issued
- 2011-05
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Abstract
- Garoufalidis and Levine introduced the homology cobordism group of homology cylinders over a surface. This group can be regarded as an enlargement of the mapping class group. Using torsion invariants, we show that the abelianization of this group is infinitely generated provided that the first Betti number of the surface is positive. In particular, this shows that the group is not perfect. This answers questions of Garoufalidis and Levine, and Goda and Sakasai. Furthermore, we show that the abelianization of the group has infinite rank for the case that the surface has more than one boundary component. These results also hold for the homology cylinder analogue of the Torelli group.
- Keywords
- torsion invariant; homology cylinder; homology cobordism; FINITE-TYPE INVARIANTS; REIDEMEISTER TORSION; TORELLI GROUP; ALEXANDER INVARIANTS; KNOT COBORDISM; MAHLER MEASURE; LINKS; REPRESENTATION; 3-MANIFOLDS; SURFACES
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/16534
- DOI
- 10.1112/S0010437X10004975
- ISSN
- 0010-437X
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- COMPOSITIO MATHEMATICA, vol. 147, no. 3, page. 914 - 942, 2011-05
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