The rational cohomology of the mapping class group vanishes in its virtual cohomological dimension
Abstract
Let Modg be the mapping class group of a genus g >= 2 surface. The group Modg has virtual cohomological dimension 4g-5. In this note we use a theorem of Broaddus and the combinatorics of chord diagrams to prove that H4g-5(Modg; Q) = 0.
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