Injectivity conjecture for odd-dimensional modular-form classes

Let M2k+2\mathcal{M}_{2k+2} be the space of modular forms of weight 2k+22k+2. The construction in Section~ gives a map

M2k+2H4k+3(Out(F2k+4)).\mathcal{M}_{2k+2}\longrightarrow H_{4k+3}\bigl(\operatorname{Out}(F_{2k+4})\bigr).

Odd-dimensional injectivity conjecture. This map is injective for all kk. The target lies in codimension 22 because the virtual cohomological dimension of Out(F2k+4)\operatorname{Out}(F_{2k+4}) is 4k+54k+5; the conjecture would imply at least linear growth of the corresponding homology dimensions for even rank.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

James Conant, Allen Hatcher, Martin Kassabov and Karen Vogtmann, “Assembling homology classes in automorphism groups of free groups”, arXiv:1501.02351 (2017).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.