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Double Johnson filtrations for mapping class groups

Geometric Topology 2020-10-13 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We first develop a general theory of Johnson filtrations and Johnson homomorphisms for a group GG acting on another group KK equipped with a filtration indexed by a "good" ordered commutative monoid. Then, specializing it to the case where the monoid is the additive monoid N2\mathbb{N}^2 of pairs on nonnegative integers, we obtain a theory of double Johnson filtrations and homomorphisms. We apply this theory to the mapping class group M\mathcal{M} of a surface Σg,1\Sigma_{g,1} with one boundary component, equipped with the normal subgroups Xˉ\bar{X}, Yˉ\bar{Y} of π1(Σg,1)\pi_1(\Sigma_{g,1}) associated to a standard Heegaard splitting of the 33-sphere. We also consider the case where the group GG is the automorphism group of a free group.

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@article{arxiv.2009.07484,
  title  = {Double Johnson filtrations for mapping class groups},
  author = {Kazuo Habiro and Anderson Vera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.07484},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

42 pages, some figures. Remark 4.17 and reference [8] added