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Bounded acyclicity of the discrete embedding monoid Emb^δ(R^n)

Determine whether the discrete monoid Emb^δ(R^n) of self-embeddings of R^n is boundedly acyclic; concretely, show that H^k_b(Emb^δ(R^n)) = 0 for every k > 0.

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Background

The paper shows that the maximal subgroup Homeo(Rn) of the monoid of self-embeddings Emb(Rn) is boundedly acyclic and discusses classical results (Kister, Segal) about the homotopy and homology of Emb(Rn) in topological and discrete settings. Extending bounded acyclicity from the group to the monoid is non-trivial and would further align discrete embedding monoids with their continuous counterparts.

This question targets the bounded cohomology of Embδ(Rn), asking whether it vanishes in positive degrees, which would parallel the authors’ main results for transformation groups and deepen the understanding of embedding monoids.

References

Question Is \mathrm{Emb}{\delta}(Rn) boundedly acyclic?

The bounded cohomology of transformation groups of Euclidean spaces and discs (2405.20395 - Fournier-Facio et al., 30 May 2024) in Section 6.2 (Questions)