On a secondary invariant of the hyperelliptic mapping class group
Volume 85 / 2009
Banach Center Publications 85 (2009), 83-92
MSC: Primary 57R20; Secondary 57M27.
DOI: 10.4064/bc85-0-5
Abstract
We discuss relations among several invariants of $3$-manifolds including Meyer's function, the $\eta$-invariant, the von Neumann $\rho$-invariant and the Casson invariant from the viewpoint of the mapping class group of a surface.
