The mapping class group of a nonorientable surface is generated by three elements and by four involutions.

DOI10.1007/S10711-005-9004-5MaRDI QIDQ2494085zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Błazej Szepietowski

Publication date 16 June 2006

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-005-9004-5

zbMATH Keywords

involutionsgeneratorsmapping class groupnonorientable surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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• A presentation for the mapping class group of a non-orientable surface from the action on the complex of curves
• Torsion generators of the twist subgroup
• A finite presentation for the hyperelliptic mapping class group of a nonorientable surface

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