On the Calegari-Venkatesh conjecture connecting modular forms spaces and algebraic K-Theory

Abstract

Calegari and Venkatesh did construct, modulo small torsion, a surjection from the degree 2 homology of the rank 2 projective general linear group over a ring of algebraic integers (of odd class number, and with enough embeddings) to the 2nd algebraic K-group of that ring. They asked whether this surjection becomes an isomorphism when passing to the quotient modulo the Eisenstein ideal on the left hand side. We provide a new method (together with numerical examples) to lift elements in the opposite direction, enabled by a theorem in a more general setting, where we exploit a connection between the algebraic K-groups and the Steinberg homology groups.