An elementary approach to the mapping class group of a surface

DOI10.2140/gt.1999.3.405zbMath0947.57015arXivmath/9912248OpenAlexW2058603464MaRDI QIDQ1960729

Bronisław Wajnryb

Publication date: 16 January 2000

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912248

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CONNECTEDNESS OF THE CUT SYSTEM COMPLEX ON NONORIENTABLE SURFACES ⋮ Orbit equivalence rigidity of irreducible actions of right-angled Artin groups ⋮ Stable commutator length of a Dehn twist ⋮ An action of subgroups of mapping class groups on polynomial algebras ⋮ Topological methods in moduli theory ⋮ Low-slope Lefschetz fibrations ⋮ Alternating maps on Hatcher–Thurston graphs ⋮ Irreducibility of the space of dihedral covers of the projective line of a given numerical type ⋮ Open books and configurations of symplectic surfaces ⋮ Automorphisms of the Hatcher-Thurston complex ⋮ Automorphisms of free groups and the mapping class groups of closed compact orientable surfaces. ⋮ Comparing homological invariants for mapping classes of surfaces ⋮ Universal Lefschetz fibrations over bounded surfaces ⋮ Signature of relations in mapping class groups and non-holomorphic Lefschetz fibrations ⋮ Generating the surface mapping class group by two elements ⋮ Embedding fillings of contact 3-manifolds ⋮ A presentation for the mapping class group of a nonorientable surface ⋮ DECOMPOSITIONS OF PLANAR HOMEOMORPHISMS USING COMPUTER SOFTWARE ⋮ Asymptotic mapping class groups of closed surfaces punctured along Cantor sets ⋮ \(E_2\)-cells and mapping class groups ⋮ Lefschetz fibrations

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