Involutions in surface mapping class groups

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Authors Athanase Papadopoulos, John D. McCarthy

Publication date 1987

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

zbMATH Keywords

involutionsmapping class group of a closed orientable surfaceproduct of two elliptic involutionsproduct of two involutionspseudo-AnosovreducibleThurston-compactification of the Teichmüller space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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