On the simplicial volumes of fiber bundles
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Abstract:
We show that surface bundles over surfaces with base and fiber of genus at least $2$ have non-vanishing simplicial volume.References
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Additional Information
- M. Hoster
- Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut, Universität München, Theresienstr. 39, 80333 München, Germany
- Email: hoster@rz.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de
- D. Kotschick
- Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut, Universität München, Theresienstr. 39, 80333 München, Germany
- MR Author ID: 267229
- Email: dieter@member.ams.org
- Received by editor(s): April 13, 1999
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 25, 1999
- Published electronically: October 16, 2000
- Additional Notes: The second author is grateful to the Institut Mittag-Leffler for hospitality during the preparation of this paper.
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 1229-1232
- MSC (2000): Primary 55R10; Secondary 57N65, 57R22
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-00-05645-8
- MathSciNet review: 1709754