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The Johnson Cokernel and the Enomoto-Satoh invariant

Quantum Algebra 2016-01-20 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

We study the cokernel of the Johnson homomorphism for the mapping class group of a surface with one boundary component. A graphical trace map simultaneously generalizing trace maps of Enomoto-Satoh and Conant-Kassabov-Vogtmann is given, and using technology from the author's work with Kassabov and Vogtmann, this is is shown to detect a large family of representations which vastly generalizes series due to Morita and Enomoto-Satoh. The Enomoto-Satoh trace is the rank 1 part of the new trace. The rank 2 part is also investigated.

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@article{arxiv.1306.3698,
  title  = {The Johnson Cokernel and the Enomoto-Satoh invariant},
  author = {Jim Conant},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.3698},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Added a reference to forthcoming work with Kassabov