scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4084577

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Authors Joan Birman

Publication date 1988

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupsTorelli groupDehn twistsNielsen realization problempseudo- Anosov diffeomorphismTeichmüller space2-dimensional surfacesmatrix representations of mapping class groupsThurston- Nielsen classification of diffeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02)

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