The critical-rank vanishing conjecture for Borel regulator classes

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Let kk be an integer with k≥1k\geq 1. The Borel regulator class β2k+1\beta_{2k+1} is a cohomology class in H4k+1(GL(2k+2,Z);R)H^{4k+1}(\mathrm{GL}(2k+2,\mathbb{Z});\mathbb{R}). Critical-rank vanishing conjecture. For every integer k=1,2,…k=1,2,\ldots,

β2k+1=0∈H4k+1(GL(2k+2,Z);R).\beta_{2k+1}=0\in H^{4k+1}(\mathrm{GL}(2k+2,\mathbb{Z});\mathbb{R}).

The cases k=1k=1 and k=2k=2 are known, while the general case remains open and determines whether 2k+22k+2 is the critical rank at which the corresponding Borel class vanishes.

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Shigeyuki Morita, Takuya Sakasai and Masaaki Suzuki, “Secondary characteristic classes for subgroups of automorphism groups of free groups”, arXiv:1512.06365 (2016).

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