Homomorphisms on groups of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms via fundamental groups

Abstract

Let $M$ be a closed manifold. Polterovich constructed a linear map from the vector space of quasi-morphisms on the fundamental group $\pi _{1}(M)$ of $M$ to the space of quasi-morphisms on the identity component ${\rm Diff}_{\Omega}^{\infty} (M)_{0}$ of the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms of $M$. In this paper, the restriction $H^{1}(\pi_{1}(M); {\mathbb R})\to H^{1}({\rm Diff}_{\Omega}^{\infty} (M)_{0} ; {\mathbb R})$ of the linear map is studied and its relationship with the flux homomorphism is described.