Small index subgroups of the mapping class group

DOI10.1515/JGT.2010.011MaRDI QIDQ3584493zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luis Paris

Publication date 30 August 2010

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2153

zbMATH Keywords

finite index subgroupMapping class group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: We prove that the mapping class group of a closed oriented surface of genus $hoge3$ has no proper subgroup of index $le4ho+4$.

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