Orbits of curves under the Johnson kernel

DOI10.1353/AJM.2014.0025zbMATH Open1306.57016arXiv1108.4511OpenAlexW3104155215MaRDI QIDQ2879438FDOQ2879438

Authors: Thomas Church 

Publication date: 1 September 2014

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper has two main goals. First, we give a complete, explicit, and computable solution to the problem of when two simple closed curves on a surface are equivalent under the Johnson kernel. Second, we show that the Johnson filtration and the Johnson homomorphism can be defined intrinsically on subsurfaces and prove that both are functorial under inclusions of subsurfaces. The key point is that the latter reduces the former to a finite computation, which can be carried out by hand. In particular this solves the conjugacy problem in the Johnson kernel for separating twists. Using a theorem of Putman, we compute the first Betti number of the Torelli group of a subsurface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4511

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zbMATH Keywords

surfacemapping class groupTorelli groupJohnson filtration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Isotopy and pseudo-isotopy (57N37)

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