The second homology group of the mapping class group of an orientable surface

DOI10.1007/BF01389321zbMath0533.57003MaRDI QIDQ789782

John L. Harer

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/143018

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacePicard groupmapping class grouporientable surfacebordism classes of fiber bundlesFrancetta conjecturemaximal systems of isotopy classes of nonintersecting simple closed curvessecond homology group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Classification theory of Riemann surfaces (30F20) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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