Involutions in surface mapping class groups

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Athanase Papadopoulos, John D. McCarthy

Publication date: 1987

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

involutionsreduciblepseudo-Anosovmapping class group of a closed orientable surfaceproduct of two involutionsproduct of two elliptic involutionsThurston-compactification of the Teichmüller space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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