The Morita-pairing conjecture for secondary Borel classes

Let μkH4k(OutF2k+2;Q)\mu_k\in H_{4k}(\mathrm{Out}\,F_{2k+2};\mathbb{Q}) be the Morita class, and let β2k+1\overset{\circ}{\beta}_{2k+1} be the secondary class defined at the critical rank 2k+22k+2, with its stated indeterminacy. Via the natural lift of μk\mu_k to H4k(AutF2k+2;Q)H_{4k}(\mathrm{Aut}\,F_{2k+2};\mathbb{Q}), the pairing β2k+1,μk\langle\overset{\circ}{\beta}_{2k+1},\mu_k\rangle is defined. Morita-pairing conjecture. For a suitable choice of β2k+1\overset{\circ}{\beta}_{2k+1} within its indeterminacy,

β2k+1,μk0.\langle\overset{\circ}{\beta}_{2k+1},\mu_k\rangle\neq 0.

This conjecture proposes a geometric detection of the Morita classes by secondary characteristic classes; its general status is open, and the value can be independent of the indeterminacy when the projection of μk\mu_k to H4k(GL(2k+2,Z);Q)H_{4k}(\mathrm{GL}(2k+2,\mathbb{Z});\mathbb{Q}) 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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