Morita's trace-pullback conjecture for the homology-cobordism group

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Let Hg,1\mathcal H_{g,1} and Hg,1\overline{\mathcal H}_{g,1} be the homology-cobordism groups in the source, let σ\sigma be the homomorphism to the inverse limit of automorphism groups of nilpotent quotients, and let σˉ\bar\sigma be its induced homomorphism on Hg,1\overline{\mathcal H}_{g,1}. For each k1k\geq1, let t~2k+1\tilde t_{2k+1} be the corresponding trace class in the second cohomology of that inverse limit. Morita's conjecture. For every kk, σˉ(t~2k+1)\bar\sigma^*(\tilde t_{2k+1}) is non-trivial in H2(Hg,1)H^2(\overline{\mathcal H}_{g,1}), while σ(t~2k+1)\sigma^*(\tilde t_{2k+1}) is trivial in H2(Hg,1)H^2(\mathcal H_{g,1}). The assertion is proposed as a way to obtain additive invariants of the group of homology 33-sphere cobordism classes and remains open.

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Shigeyuki Morita, “Cohomological structure of the mapping class group and beyond”, arXiv:math/0507308 (2005).

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