Canonical lifts of the Johnson homomorphisms to the Torelli groupoid

dc.creatorBene, Alex James
dc.creatorKawazumi, Nariya
dc.creatorPenner, R. C.
dc.date2007-07-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:19:20Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:19:20Z
dc.descriptionWe prove that every trivalent marked bordered fatgraph comes equipped with a canonical generalized Magnus expansion in the sense of Kawazumi. This Magnus expansion is used to give canonical lifts of the higher Johnson homomorphisms $τ_m$, for $m\geq 1$, to the Torelli groupoid, and we provide a recursive combinatorial formula for tensor representatives of these lifts. In particular, we give an explicit 1-cocycle in the dual fatgraph complex which lifts $τ_2$ and thus answer affirmatively a question of Morita-Penner. To illustrate our techniques for calculating higher Johnson homomorphisms in general, we give explicit examples calculating $τ_m$, for $m\leq 3$.
dc.description38 pages, 6 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2984
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2984
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/134730
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.subject32G15; 57M99; 14H10; 57N05; 20F99
dc.titleCanonical lifts of the Johnson homomorphisms to the Torelli groupoid
dc.typetext

Files

Collections