© The London Mathematical Society 2006
NEW OBSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SURJECTIVITY OF THE JOHNSON HOMOMORPHISM OF THE AUTOMORPHISM GROUP OF A FREE GROUP
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo 3-8-1 Komaba Meguro-ku Tokyo, 153-8914, Japan takao{at}ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Received 6 April 2005. Revision received 12 September 2005.
In this paper we construct new obstructions for the surjectivity of the Johnson homomorphism of the automorphism group of a free group. We also determine the structure of the cokernel of the Johnson homomorphism for degrees 2 and 3.