Vanishing conjecture for the top cohomology of mapping class groups

Let Modg\operatorname{Mod}_g be the mapping class group of a closed, oriented surface of genus g2g\geq 2, and let H(;Q)H^*(-;\mathbb{Q}) denote rational group cohomology. Vanishing conjecture. For each i0i\geq 0 we have H4g5i(Modg;Q)=0H^{4g-5-i}(\operatorname{Mod}_g;\mathbb{Q})=0 for gig\gg i. This is presented as the vanishing consequence of the proposed stable instability for mapping class groups; the source gives no resolution of the general statement.

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Thomas Church, Benson Farb and Andrew Putman, “A stability conjecture for the unstable cohomology of SL_n Z, mapping class groups, and Aut(F_n)”, arXiv:1208.3216 (2013).

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