A twisted first homology group of the Goeritz group of 3-sphere
Akira Kanada

TL;DR
This paper computes the twisted first homology group of the genus-2 Goeritz group of the 3-sphere, providing new algebraic insights into the symmetries of Heegaard splittings.
Contribution
It is the first to explicitly determine the twisted first (co)homology group of the genus-2 Goeritz group of the 3-sphere.
Findings
Computed the twisted first homology group of the genus-2 Goeritz group.
Provided algebraic structure insights into the symmetries of genus-2 Heegaard splittings.
Enhanced understanding of the mapping class group actions on 3-sphere splittings.
Abstract
Given a genus-g Heegaard splitting of a 3-sphere, the genus-g Goeritz group is defined to be the group of the isotopy classes of orientation preserving homeomorphism of the 3-sphere that preserve the splitting. In this paper, we determine the twisted first (co)homology group of the genus-2 Goeritz group of 3-sphere.
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TopicsGeometric and Algebraic Topology · Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology · Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
A Twisted First Homology group of the Goeritz group of
Akira Kanada
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E-mail address: [email protected]
Abstract.
Given a genus- Heegaard splitting of a -sphere, the genus- Goeritz group is defined to be the group of the isotopy classes of orientation preserving homeomorphism of the -sphere that preserve the splitting. In this paper, we determine the twisted first (co)homology group of the genus- Goeritz group of -sphere.
1. Introduction
Mapping class group
Let be a 3-dimensional handlebody of genus , and be the boundary surface . We denote by the mapping class group of , the group of isotopy classes of orientation preserving homeomorphisms of . Dehn [2] proved that is generated by finitely many Dehn twists. Furthermore Lickorish [19, 20] proved that Dehn twists generate . Humphries [16] found that Dehn twists generate .
We denote by the handlebody mapping class group, the subgroup of mapping class group of boundary surface defined by isotopy classes of those orientation preserving homeomorphisms of which can be extended to homeomorphisms of . It turns out that can be identified with the group of isotopy classes of orientation preserving homeomorphisms of . A finite presentation of the handlebody mapping class group was obtained by Wajnryb [1].
Goeritz group
Let and be 3-dimensional handlebodies, and be a Heegaard splitting of a closed orientable -manifold . Let be the mapping class group of the boundary surface . The group of mapping classes such that there is an orientation preserving self-homeomorphism of satisfying is called the genus- Goeritz group of . When a manifold admits a unique Heegaard splitting of genus up to isotopy, we can define the genus- Goeritz group of the manifold without mentioning a specific splitting. For example, the -sphere, and lens spaces are known to be such manifolds from [6], [4] and [5].
In studying Goeritz groups, finding their generating sets or presentations has been an interesting problem. However the generating sets or the presentation of those groups have been obtained only for a few manifolds with their splittings of small genera. A finite presentation of the genus-2 Goeritz group of 3-sphere was obtained [3]. In an arbitrary genus, first Powell [8] and then Hirose [17] claimed that they have found a finite generating set for the genus- Goeritz group of 3-sphere, though serious gaps in both arguments were found by Scharlemann. Establishing the existence of such generating sets appears to be an open problem.
In addition, finite presentations of the genus-2 Goeritz groups of each lens spaces were obtained [12], other lens spaces were obtained [15] and the genus- Heegaard splittings of non-prime -manifolds were obtained [14]. Recently a finite presentation of the genus-2 Goeritz group of was obtained [13].
Homology of mapping class group
Computing homology of mapping class groups is interesting topic of studying mapping class groups. Harer [9] determined the second homology group of mapping class group :
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In fact, Harer proved a more general theorem for surfaces with multiple boundary components and arbitrarily many punctures.
In twisted case, Morita [18] determined the first homology group with coefficients in the first integral homology group of the surface:
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Recently Ishida and Sato [7] computed the twisted first homology groups of the handlebody mapping class group with coefficients in the first integral homology group of the boundary surface :
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Goeritz group of
Let and be 3-dimensional handlebodies, and be the Heegaard splitting of the -sphere . Waldhausen [6] proved that a genus- Heegaard splitting of is unique up to isotopy. Let be the mapping class group of the boundary surface . The group of mapping classes such that there is an orientation preserving self-homeomorphism of satisfying is denoted by . It is called the genus- Goeritz group of the -sphere.
Twisted homology group of
In this paper, we compute the twisted first homology group of with coefficients in the first integral homology group of the Heegaard surface . The following is the main theorem in this paper.
Theorem 1.1**.**
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A finite presentation of the genus-2 Goeritz group of the 3-sphere was obtained from the works of [3]. For the higher genus Goeritz groups of the 3-sphere, it is conjectured that all of them are finitely presented however it is still known to be an open problem.
Let be a compact connected orientable surface of genus and be oriented simple closed curves as in Figure 1. We denote their homology classes in by . The basis of induces an isomorphism . For , we denote its projection to the -th coordinate of by for .
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Akbas gave following presentation for in [3].
Theorem 1.2** ([3]).**
The group has four generators and , and the following relations:
- (P1)
.
- (P2)
* and .*
- (P3)
* and .*
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We define as follows. Consider the genus-two handlebody as a regular neighborhood of a sphere, centered at the origin, with three holes. The homeomorphism is a rotation of the handlebody about the vertical -axis. See Figure 2. Scharlemann [11] showed that the group is generated by isotopy classes and . Correspondence of homology classes of (iv) and the others are as follows:
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2. Twisted cohomology group of
We denote by the ring or for an integer , and set . For a group and a left -module , a map is called a crossed homomorphism if it satisfies for . Now let be the set of all crossed homomorphisms . Namely
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Let be the homomorphism defined by
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for . Then as is well known we have
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(cf. K.S. Brown [10]).
We consider the case . Then we have the homomorphism Aut induced by the action of the group on . The action of and is as follows:
- :
and ().
- :
, , , .
- :
, ,, .
- :
, , , .
For a group and a left -module , the coinvariant is quotient module of by the subgroup .
Lemma 2.1**.**
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Proof.
Since we have and , we obtain . And we have and . Hence we also obtain . ∎
Lemma 2.2**.**
Let , and be G-modules , and let
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be exact sequences. If is an isomorphism, then we have is isomorphism.
Proof.
Now we have the following diagram. Set and .
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Note that is injective and is surjective if is an isomorphism. Thus we have and . Since is isomorphism, we have and . Hence those exact sequences are split and we have
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A composition map is
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Hence is an isomorphism. ∎
Lemma 2.3**.**
In the case , we have
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Proof.
Let be a homomorphism defined by
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Since we have
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the composition map is written as
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for . This map is an isomorphism. We have the following diagram.
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By Lemma , we have
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∎
The group is generated by and . Therefore, all crossed homomorphisms are determined by the values and . If , we can set
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Then we have
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3. relations of
In this section we shall consider the case . We denote for simply by .
Lemma 3.1**.**
We have relations:
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Proof.
By the relations in (P1), we have . The equation
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holds. Hence, we obtain and . ∎
Lemma 3.2**.**
We have relations:
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Proof.
By the relations in (P2), we have and
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Comparing and , we obtain . ∎
Lemma 3.3**.**
We have relations:
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Proof.
By the relation in (P2), we have and
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Comparing and , we obtain . ∎
Lemma 3.4**.**
We have relations:
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Proof.
By the relation in (P3), we have and
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Comparing and , we obtain . ∎
Lemma 3.5**.**
We have relations:
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Proof.
By the relation in (P3), we have and
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Comparing and , we obtain and . ∎
By Lemma 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5, we obtain the following equations.
4. Calculation of cohomology
In this section we prove that . The universal coefficient theorem implies . To determine the twisted first cohomology group of , we solve equations and the condition , i.e.
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Lemma 4.1**.**
We have a relation of :
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Proof.
Using and by , we obtain
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∎
Lemma 4.2**.**
The elements , , , and have order and
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Proof.
By (2a) and (2b), we have . By we have . Using these two equations and , we have Since , the equation
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holds. Using and Lemma 4.1, we obtain
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The equation
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holds. So we obtain
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We have
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Here, is the equation . This equation is obtained as follows:
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By and Lemma4.1, we have . Hence we obtain
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∎
From the results of Lemma 4.2 and (4.2.2), we have
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Lemma 4.3**.**
We have a relation:
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Proof.
By and , we obtain
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Using this equation and , we have . So the equation
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holds. The equation
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holds. Hence we have
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So we obtain
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Since the equation holds, we complete the proof of Lemma 4.3. ∎
Lemma 4.4**.**
The elements , and have order and are equal to each other:
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Proof.
By (3a), the element have order . Since the equation
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holds, we obtain
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∎
Proof of Theorem 1.1.
From Lemmas 3,7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4, we have
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where and . Hence it follows
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So we obtain
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This isomorphism follows from the short exact sequence
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since we have by Lemma 2.1. we complete the proof of Theorem 1.1.
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