A lantern lemma

DOI10.2140/AGT.2002.2.1179MaRDI QIDQ1855208zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dan Margalit

Publication date 21 October 2003

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206120, https://eudml.org/doc/122951, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol2/agt-2-46.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupDehn twistlantern relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: We show that in the mapping class group of a surface any relation between Dehn twists of the form T_x^j T_y^k = M (M a multitwist) is the lantern relation, and any relation of the form (T_x T_y)^k = M (where T_x commutes with M) is the 2-chain relation.

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