Braid groups and discrete diffeomorphisms of the punctured disk

作者:Nariman Sam*
来源:Mathematische Zeitschrift, 2018, 288(3-4): 1255-1271.
DOI:10.1007/s00209-017-1933-9

摘要

We show that the group cohomology of the diffeomorphisms of the disk with n punctures has the cohomology of the braid group of n strands as the summand. As an application of this method, we also prove that there is no cohomological obstruction to lifting the "standard" embedding to a group homomorphism between diffeomorphism groups.