Morita's conjecture on the graded Lie algebras of the Torelli group

Let gg be the genus, let tg\mathfrak{t}_g be the relevant graded Lie algebra associated to the Torelli group, and let mg\mathfrak{m}_g be the Lie algebra of symplectic derivations. Write tg(k)\mathfrak{t}_g(k) and mg(k)\mathfrak{m}_g(k) for their degree-kk parts, and let Grtgmg\mathrm{Gr}\,\mathfrak{t}_g\twoheadrightarrow\mathfrak{m}_g be the natural surjection. Morita's conjecture. For any k2k\not=2, the equality

tg(k)mg(k)\mathfrak{t}_g(k)\cong\mathfrak{m}_g(k)

holds so that

Ker(Grtgmg)Q.\mathrm{Ker}(\mathrm{Gr}\,\mathfrak{t}_g\twoheadrightarrow\mathfrak{m}_g)\cong\mathbb{Q}.

This conjecture concerns the relationship between the graded Lie algebra of the Torelli group and the Lie algebra of symplectic derivations, and is also formulated in terms of characteristic classes of the mapping class group. The source presents it as an open conjecture and cites Morita's Problem 6.2 as prior context.

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Primary source

Shigeyuki Morita, Takuya Sakasai and Masaaki Suzuki, “Torelli group, Johnson kernel and invariants of homology spheres”, arXiv:1711.07855 (2020).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1008.1368.

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