Bowden's bounded acyclicity conjecture for the stable mapping class group
Bowden's bounded acyclicity conjecture for the stable mapping class group
Let denote the stable mapping class group, formed as the direct union of the groups of isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of with compact support in the interior under stabilization by attaching a two-holed torus. A group is boundedly acyclic if its bounded cohomology with real coefficients vanishes in every positive degree:
Bowden's conjecture. The stable mapping class group is boundedly acyclic.
Bowden's conjecture extends the known vanishing of stable commutator length and of to all positive degrees. Its status is not resolved in the supplied source.
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Caterina Campagnolo, Francesco Fournier-Facio, Yash Lodha and Marco Moraschini, “An algebraic criterion for the vanishing of bounded cohomology”, arXiv:2311.16259 (2025).
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