Double Johnson filtrations for mapping class groups

Publication date 16 September 2020

Abstract: We first develop a general theory of Johnson filtrations and Johnson homomorphisms for a group

G

acting on another group

K

equipped with a filtration indexed by a "good" ordered commutative monoid. Then, specializing it to the case where the monoid is the additive monoid

m a t h b b 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 a t h c a l M

of a surface

S i g m a_{g, 1}

with one boundary component, equipped with the normal subgroups

,

of

p i_{1} (S i g m a_{g, 1})

associated to a standard Heegaard splitting of the

3

-sphere. We also consider the case where the group

G

is the automorphism group of a free group.

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