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A Chord Diagrammatic Presentation of the Mapping Class Group of a Once Bordered Surface
Alex James Bene
The Ptolemy groupoid is a combinatorial groupoid generated by elementary moves on marked trivalent fatgraphs with three types of relations. Through the fatgraph decomposition of Te…
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Canonical lifts of the Johnson homomorphisms to the Torelli groupoid
Alex James Bene, Nariya Kawazumi, R. C. Penner
We 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…