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We study stable Sp-decompositions of the cokernel of the Johnson homomorphism. Continuing the work of Conant in 2016, which identified the 1-loop part of the Johnson cokernel as the Enomoto-Satoh obstruction, we study the 2-loop part. Using…
The Enomoto-Satoh (ES) trace detects the Johnson cokernel, and its 1-cocycle property is important for the proof that the Johnson image is annihilated by the ES trace. Via the natural map from the ribbon graph complex introduced by Merkulov…
The so-called Johnson homomorphisms $(\tau_k)_{k \geq 1}$ embed the graded space associated to the Johnson filtration of a surface with one boundary component into the Lie ring of positive symplectic derivations $D(H)$. In this paper, we…
In [ES2], the first and the third authors introduced new classes in the Johnson cokernels of the mapping class groups of surfaces by a representation theoretic approach based on some previous results for the Johnson cokernels of the…
The degree $d$ part of the cokernel $\mathsf C_d$ of the Johnson homomorphism decomposes into irreducible $\mathrm{SP}$-modules indexed by partitions of $d-2r$ for $r\geq 0$: $$\mathsf C_d\cong \mathsf C_d(d)\oplus \mathsf…
In the present paper, we study the Sp-module structure of the cokernel of the Johnson homomorphism of the mapping class groups of surfaces. We detect the Sp-irreducible components with highest weight [1^k] (and [k]) in the cokernel. We also…
Morita introduced in 2008 a 1-cocycle on the group of homology cobordisms of surfaces with values in an infinite-dimensional vector space. His 1-cocycle contains all the "traces" of Johnson homomorphisms which he introduced fifteen years…
We explain how the Johnson homomorphism and the Enomoto-Satoh trace, as well as higher-loop-order generalizations, can be obtained from graph complexes originating in the Goodwillie-Weiss calculus. This paper can be seen as an addendum to…
In this paper, we survey recent works on the structure of the mapping class groups of surfaces mainly from the point of view of topology. We then discuss several possible directions for future research. These include the relation between…
Combinatorial aspects of the Torelli-Johnson-Morita theory of surface automorphisms are extended to certain subgroups of the mapping class groups. These subgroups are defined relative to a specified homomorphism from the fundamental group…
We generalize the notion of a Magnus expansion of a free group in order to extend each of the Johnson homomorphisms defined on a decreasing filtration of the Torelli group for a surface with one boundary component to the whole of the…
In this paper, we study the Johnson homomorphisms of basis-conjugating automorphism groups of free groups. We construct obstructions for the surjectivity of the Johnson homomorphisms. By using it, we determine its cokernels of degree up to…
The Johnson filtration of the mapping class group of a compact, oriented surface is the descending series consisting of the kernels of the actions on the nilpotent quotients of the fundamental group of the surface. Each term of the Johnson…
We show that if H is a cocommutative Hopf algebra, then there is a natural action of Aut(F_n) on the nth tensor power of H which induces an Out(F_n) action on a quotient \overline{H^{\otimes n}}. In the case when H=T(V) is the tensor…
By introducing a refinement of the Goldman-Turaev Lie bialgebra, we interpret the divergence cocycle in the Kashiwara-Vergne problem and the Enomoto-Satoh obstructions for the surjectivity of the Johnson homomorphisms as some part of a…
The Johnson kernel is the subgroup of the mapping class group of a surface generated by Dehn twists along bounding simple closed curves, and has the second Johnson homomorphism as a free abelian quotient. In terms of the representation…
Johnson has defined a surjective homomorphism from the Torelli subgroup of the mapping class group of the surface of genus $g$ with one boundary component to $\wedge^3 H$, the third exterior product of the homology of the surface. Morita…
Let K be the subgroup of the extended mapping class group, Mod(S), generated by Dehn twists about separating curves. Assuming that S is a closed, orientable surface of genus at least 4, we confirm a conjecture of Farb that Comm(K), Aut(K)…
Let $\Sigma_{g,*}$ be a once-punctured oriented surface of genus $g$. We study the action of the mapping class group $\Gamma_{g,*}$ on the $n^{th}$ rational cohomology of the configuration space $\text{Conf}_n(\Sigma_{g,*})$ of injections…
We study the algebraic property of the representation of the mapping class group of a closed oriented surface of genus 2 constructed by VFR Jones [Annals of Math. 126 (1987) 335-388]. It arises from the Iwahori-Hecke algebra representations…