Papers

Most of my papers can also be found on the arXiv, Google Scholar, MathSciNet, and zbMath.

Preprints

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A. Putman
The stable cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures
preprint 2022

Accepted Papers

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J. Malestein, A. Putman
Word length versus lower central series depth for surface groups and RAAGs
to appear in Groups Geom. Dyn.

Published Papers

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T. Brendle, N. Broaddus, A. Putman
The high-dimensional cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures II: punctures and boundary
Israel J. Math. 260 (2024), no. 1, 303-340.

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M. Boggi, A. Putman, N. Salter
Generating the homology of covers of surfaces
Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 56 (2024), no. 5, 1768-1787.

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A. Putman
A new approach to twisted homological stability, with applications to congruence subgroups
J. Topol. 16 (2023), no. 4, 1315-1388.

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Z. Himes, J. Miller, S. Nariman, A. Putman
The free factor complex and the dualizing module for the automorphism group of a free group
Int. Math. Res. Not. (2023), no. 22, 19020-19068.

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A. Putman
Partial Torelli groups and homological stability
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 23 (2023), 3417-3496.

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A. Putman, A. Snowden
The Steinberg representation is irreducible
Duke Math. J. 172 (2023), no. 4, 775-808.

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T. Brendle, N. Broaddus, A. Putman
The mapping class group of connect sums of S2 $\times$ S1
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 376 (2023), 2557-2572.

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A. Putman, S. Sam
VIC-modules over noncommutative rings
Selecta Math. (N.S.) 28 (2022), no. 5, Paper No. 88.

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A. Putman
The commutator subgroups of free groups and surface groups
Enseign. Math. 68 (2022), no. 3-4, 389-408.

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T. Church, M. Ershov, A. Putman
On finite generation of the Johnson filtrations
J. Eur. Math. Soc. 24 (2022), no. 8, 2875-2914.

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A. Putman, D. Studenmund
The dualizing module and top-dimensional cohomology group of GLn($\mathcal{O}$)
Math. Z. 300 (2022), no. 1, 1-31.

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J. Miller, P. Patzt, A. Putman
On the top dimensional cohomology groups of congruence subgroups of SLn($\mathbb{Z}$)
Geom. Topol. 25 (2021), no. 2, 999-1058.

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D. Margalit, A. Putman
Surface groups, infinite generating sets, and stable commutator length
Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A. 150 (2020), no. 5, 2379-2386.

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A. Putman, S. Sam, A. Snowden
Stability in the homology of unipotent groups
Algebra & Number Theory 14 (2020), no. 1, 119-154.

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N. Fullarton, A. Putman
The high-dimensional cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures
J. Eur. Math. Soc. 22 (2020), no. 4, 1261-1287.

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M. Kassabov, A. Putman
Equivariant group presentations and the second homology group of the Torelli group
Math. Ann. 376 (2020), no. 1-2, 227-241.

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J. Malestein, A. Putman
Simple closed curves, finite covers of surfaces, and power subgroups of Out(Fn)
Duke Math. J. 168 (2019), no. 14, 2701-2726.

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T. Church, B. Farb, A. Putman
Integrality in the Steinberg module and the top-dimensional cohomology of SLn$\mathcal{O}$K
Amer. J. Math. 141 (2019), no. 5, 1375-1419.

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A. Ash, A. Putman, S. Sam
Homological vanishing for the Steinberg representation
Compos. Math. 154 (2018), no. 6, 1111-1130.

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A. Putman
The Johnson homomorphism and its kernel
J. Reine Angew. Math. 735 (2018), 109-141.

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M. Day, A. Putman
On the second homology group of the Torelli subgroup of Aut(Fn)
Geom. Topol. 21 (2017), no. 5, 2851-2896
Computer code used in paper here.

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T. Church, A. Putman
The codimension-one cohomology of SLn$\mathbb{Z}$
Geom. Topol. 21 (2017), no. 2, 999-1032.

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A. Putman, S. Sam
Representation stability and finite linear groups
Duke Math. J. 166 (2017), no. 13, 2521-2598.

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M. Day, A. Putman
A Birman exact sequence for the Torelli subgroup of Aut(Fn)
Internat. J. Algebra Comput. 26 (2016), no. 3, 585-617.
Computer code used in paper here.

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J. Malestein, A. Putman
Pseudo-Anosov dilatations and the Johnson filtration
Groups Geom. Dyn. 10 (2016), no. 2, 771-793.

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A. Putman
Stability in the homology of congruence subgroups
Invent. Math. 202 (2015), no. 3, 987-1027.

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T. Church, A. Putman
Generating the Johnson filtration
Geom. Topol. 19 (2015), no. 4, 2217–2255.

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T. Brendle, D. Margalit, A. Putman
Generators for the hyperelliptic Torelli group and the kernel of the Burau representation at t=-1
Invent. Math. 200 (2015), no. 1, 263-310.

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T. Church, B. Farb, A. Putman
A stability conjecture for the unstable cohomology of SLn($\mathbb{Z}$), mapping class groups, and Aut(Fn)
in "Algebraic Topology: Applications and New Directions", 55-70,
Contemp. Math. 620 (2014), Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI.

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A. Putman, B. Wieland
Abelian quotients of subgroups of the mapping class group and higher Prym representations
J. London Math. Soc. 88 (2013), no. 1, 79-96.

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M. Day, A. Putman
The complex of partial bases for Fn and finite generation of the Torelli subgroup of Aut(Fn)
Geom. Dedicata 164 (2013), 139-153.

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A. Putman
The Torelli group and congruence subgroups of the mapping class group
in "Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces (Park City, UT, 2011)", 167-194,
IAS/Park City Math. Ser. 20 (2013), Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI.

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T. Church, B. Farb, A. Putman
The rational cohomology of the mapping class group vanishes in its virtual cohomological dimension
Int. Math. Res. Not. (2012), no. 21, 5025–5030.

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A. Putman
Small generating sets for the Torelli group
Geom. Topol. 16 (2012), no. 1, 111–125.

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M. Day, A. Putman
A Birman exact sequence for Aut(Fn)
Adv. Math. 231 (2012), 243–275.

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A. Putman
The Picard group of the moduli space of curves with level structures
Duke Math. J. 161 (2012), no. 4, 623–674.
Computer code used in paper here.

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A. Putman
The second rational homology group of the moduli space of curves with level structures
Adv. Math. 229 (2012), 1205–1234.

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A. Putman
Abelian covers of surfaces and the homology of the level L mapping class group
J. Topol. Anal. 3 (2011), no. 3, 265–306.

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A. Putman
Obtaining presentations from group actions without making choices
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 11 (2011), 1737-1766.

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N. Broaddus, B. Farb, A. Putman
Irreducible Sp-representations and subgroup distortion in the mapping class group
Comment. Math. Helv. 86 (2011), 537-556.

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J. Malestein, A. Putman
On the self-intersections of curves deep in the lower central series of a surface group
Geom. Dedicata 149 (2010), no. 1, 73–84.

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A. Putman
A note on the abelianizations of finite-index subgroups of the mapping class group
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010), 753-758.

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A. Putman
An infinite presentation of the Torelli group
Geom. Funct. Anal. 19 (2009), no. 2, 591-643.

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J. Birman, D. Johnson, A. Putman
Symplectic Heegaard splittings and linked abelian groups
in "Groups of Diffeomorphisms", 135-220,
Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 52 (2008), Math. Soc. Japan, Tokyo.

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A. Putman
A note on the connectivity of certain complexes associated to surfaces
Enseign. Math. 54 (2008), no. 2, 287-301.

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N. Broaddus, B. Farb, A. Putman
The Casson invariant and the word metric on the Torelli group
C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 345 (2007), 449-452.

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A. Putman
Cutting and pasting in the Torelli group
Geom. Topol. 11 (2007), no. 2, 829-865.

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A. Putman
The rationality of sol manifolds
J. Algebra 304 (2006), no. 1, 190-215.

Permanent Preprints

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T. Church, A. Putman
Generating the Johnson filtration II: finite generation
preprint 2017.

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A. Putman
The abelianization of the level L mapping class group
preprint 2008.