Normal closures of powers of Dehn twists in mapping class groups

DOI10.1017/S0017089500008879MaRDI QIDQ4016244zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Stephen P. Humphries

Publication date 16 December 1992

Published in Glasgow Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017089500008879

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn twistmapping class groupnormal closure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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• The structure of the Torelli group. II: A characterization of the group generated by twists on bounding curves
• Two Theorems on the Mapping Class Group of a Surface
• Zur Theorie der Siegelschen Modulgruppe

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• An expansion of the Jones representation of genus \(2\) and the Torelli group
• The normal closure of big Dehn twists and plate spinning with rotating families
• Congruence subgroups of braid groups
• ON POWERS OF HALF-TWISTS IN M(0, 2n)
• Quotients of the mapping class group by power subgroups
• The normal closure of a power of a half-twist has infinite index in the mapping class group of a punctured sphere
• Relative homological representations of framed mapping class groups
• Braids groups and mapping class groups: the Birman-Hilden theory
• On power subgroups of mapping class groups
• Notes on hyperelliptic mapping class groups
• A combinatorial take on hierarchical hyperbolicity and applications to quotients of mapping class groups
• The level four braid group
• On squares of DEHN twists about non-separating curves of a non-orientable closed surface
• On the uniqueness of the Prym map
• Finiteness of canonical quotients of Dehn quandles of surfaces
• A surgery approach to abelian quotients of the level 2 congruence group and the Torelli group
• Edge-preserving maps of curve graphs

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