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The zero norm subspace of bounded cohomology of acylindrically hyperbolic groups. (English) Zbl 1468.20093

Summary: We construct combinatorial volume forms of hyperbolic three manifolds fibering over the circle. These forms define non-trivial classes in bounded cohomology. After introducing a new seminorm on exact bounded cohomology, we use these combinatorial classes to show that, in degree 3, the zero norm subspace of the bounded cohomology of an acylindrically hyperbolic group is infinite dimensional. In an appendix we use the same techniques to give a cohomological proof of a lower bound, originally due to Brock, on the volume of the mapping torus of a cobounded pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of a closed surface in terms of its Teichmüller translation distance.

MSC:

20J06 Cohomology of groups
20F65 Geometric group theory
20F67 Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups
57M07 Topological methods in group theory
57M50 General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds