The dihedral-tensor conjecture for representations in the Johnson cokernel

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Let HH be the symplectic representation underlying the Johnson cokernel, let D2sD_{2s} be the dihedral group of order 2s2s, and write [H⟨s⟩]D2s[H^{\langle s\rangle}]_{D_{2s}} for the corresponding dihedral coinvariants. Let Cs\mathsf C_s denote the degree-ss part of the Johnson cokernel, and call an irreducible representation in it a representation of size ss. Dihedral-tensor conjecture. All representations of size ss in Cs\mathsf C_s are contained in

[H⟨s⟩]D2s.[H^{\langle s\rangle}]_{D_{2s}}.

The conjecture is motivated by explicit calculations for small values of ss, where the dihedral coinvariants account for all representations observed in the corresponding graded pieces of the Johnson cokernel. Whether this containment holds in every size remains open.

References

Primary source

Jim Conant, “The Johnson Cokernel and the Enomoto-Satoh invariant”, arXiv:1306.3698 (2013).

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