Abstract
Let S be a compact connected oriented surface with one boundary component. We
extend each of Johnson's and Morita's homomorphisms to the Ptolemy groupoid of
S. Our extensions are canonical and take values into finitely generated free
abelian groups. The construction is based on the 3-dimensional interpretation
of the Ptolemy groupoid, and a chain map introduced by Suslin and Wodzicki to
relate the homology of a nilpotent group to the homology of its Malcev Lie
algebra.
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