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Generating the Johnson filtration II: finite generation

Geometric Topology 2017-11-16 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We prove that every term of the lower central series and Johnson filtrations of the Torelli subgroups of the mapping class group and the automorphism group of a free group are finitely generated in a stable range. This was originally proved for the commutator subgroup by Ershov-He.

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@article{arxiv.1704.01529,
  title  = {Generating the Johnson filtration II: finite generation},
  author = {Thomas Church and Andrew Putman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.01529},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages. After completing this paper, we learned that Ershov independently obtained similar results. The subsequent joint paper, with improved results, is arXiv:1711.04779. This version remains as a permanent preprint and will not be submitted for publication

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