Sur l'homologie des groupes orthogonaux et symplectiques \`a coefficients tordus

TL;DR

This paper computes the stable homology of orthogonal and symplectic groups over finite fields with twisted coefficients, using algebraic methods and spectral sequences to simplify complex homological calculations.

Contribution

It introduces a formal framework connecting stable group homology with homology of small categories, and simplifies spectral sequence analysis using algebraic and cancellation techniques.

Findings

Computed second sheet of spectral sequence for specific cases

Established algebraic methods for homology of classical groups

Simplified complex homological calculations using cancellation results

Abstract

We compute the stable homology of orthogonal and symplectic groups over a finite field k with coefficients coming from an usual endofunctor F of k-vector spaces (exterior, symmetric, divided powers...), that is, for all natural integer i, we compute the colimits of the vector spaces $H_i(O_{n,n}(k) ; F(k^{2n}))$ and $H_i(Sp_{2n}(k) ; F(k^{2n}))$. In this situation, the stabilization is a classical result of Charney. We give a formal framework to connect stable homology of some families of groups and homology of suitable small categories thanks to a spectral sequence which collapses in several cases. By our purely algebraic methods (i.e. without stable K-theory) we obtain again results of Betley for stable homology of linear groups and symmetric groups. For orthogonal and symplectic groups over a field we prove a categorical result for vector spaces equipped with quadratic or alternating forms and use powerful cancellation results known in homology of functors (Suslin, Scorichenko, Djament) to deduce a spectacular simplification of the second sheet of our general spectral sequence. When we consider the orthogonal and symplectic groups over a finite field and we take coefficients with values in vector spaces over the same field, we can compute the second sheet of the spectral sequence thanks to classical results: homological cancellation with trivial coefficients (Quillen, Fiedorowicz-Priddy) and calculation of torsion groups between usual functors (Franjou-Friedlander-Scorichenko-Suslin, Chalupnik).