A survey of the Torelli group

DOI10.1090/conm/020/718141zbMath0553.57002OpenAlexW4246607521MaRDI QIDQ3346950

Dennis L. Johnson

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/020/718141

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symplectic groupgeneratorsmapping class groupTorelli groupTeichmüller theoryabelian quotientsaction on the first homology group of the surfacehomeomorphisms of a closed oriented surface

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