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On finite generation of the Johnson filtrations

  • Thomas Church

    Stanford University, USA

  • Mikhail Ershov

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

  • Andrew Putman

    University of Notre Dame, USA
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Abstract

We prove that every term of the lower central series and Johnson filtrations of the Torelli subgroups of the mapping class group and the automorphism group of a free group is finitely generated in a linear stable range. This was originally proved for the second terms by Ershov and He.

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Thomas Church, Mikhail Ershov, Andrew Putman, On finite generation of the Johnson filtrations. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 24 (2022), no. 8, pp. 2875–2914

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/1157