Bordism invariants of the mapping class group

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2004
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We define new bordism and spin bordism invariants of certain subgroups of the mapping class group of a surface. In particular, they are invariants of the Johnson filtration of the mapping class group. The second and third terms of this filtration are the well-known Torelli group and Johnson subgroup, respectively. We introduce a new representation in terms of spin bordism, and we prove that this single representation contains all of the information given by the Johnson homomorphisms, the Birman-Craggs homomorphisms, and the Morita homomorphisms.

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Heap, Aaron. "Bordism invariants of the mapping class group." (2004) Diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18635.

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