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Two mod-p Johnson filtrations

Geometric Topology 2014-03-05 v3 Group Theory

Abstract

We consider two mod-p central series of the free group given by Stallings and Zassenhaus. Applying these series to definitions of Dennis Johnson's filtration of the mapping class group we obtain two mod-p Johnson filtrations. Further, we adapt the definition of the Johnson homomorphisms to obtain mod-p Johnson homomorphisms. We calculate the image of the first of these homomorphisms. We give generators for the kernels of these homomorphisms as well. We restrict the range of our mod-p Johnson homomorphisms using work of Morita. We finally prove the announced result of Perron that a rational homology 3-sphere may be given as a Heegaard splitting with gluing map coming from certain members of our mod-p Johnson filtrations.

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@article{arxiv.1402.4186,
  title  = {Two mod-p Johnson filtrations},
  author = {James Cooper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.4186},
  year   = {2014}
}

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35 pages, 1 figure; added reference

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