Mapping class group and global Torelli theorem for hyperkahler manifolds: an erratum


Abstract in English

A mapping class group of an oriented manifold is a quotient of its diffeomorphism group by the isotopies. In the published version of Mapping class group and a global Torelli theorem for hyperkahler manifolds I made an error based on a wrong quotation of Dennis Sullivans famous paper Infinitesimal computations in topology. I claimed that the natural homomorphism from the mapping class group to the group of automorphims of cohomology of a simply connected Kahler manifold has finite kernel. In a recent preprint arXiv:1907.05693, Matthias Kreck and Yang Su produced counterexamples to this statement. Here I correct this error and other related errors, observing that the results of Mapping class group and a global Torelli theorem remain true after an appropriate change of terminology.

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