Torelli groups, extended Johnson homomorphisms, and new cycles on the moduli space of curves

• Autores: S. Morita, R. C. Penner
• Localización: Mathematical proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, ISSN 0305-0041, Vol. 144, Nº 3, 2008, págs. 651-671
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Infinite presentations are given for all of the higher Torelli groups of once-punctured surfaces. In the case of the classical Torelli group, a finite presentation of the corresponding groupoid is also given, and finite presentations of the classical Torelli groups acting trivially on homology modulo N are derived for all N. Furthermore, the first Johnson homomorphism, which is defined from the classical Torelli group to the third exterior power of the homology of the surface, is shown to lift to an explicit canonical 1-cocycle of the Teichmüller space. The main tool for these results is the known mapping class group invariant ideal cell decomposition of the Teichmüller space.