Quasi-homomorphisms and stable lengths in mapping class groups

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07508-2zbMath1055.20037arXivmath/0307362MaRDI QIDQ4813744

Dieter Kotschick

Publication date: 13 August 2004

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0307362

zbMATH Keywords

bounded generationmapping class groupsquasi-homomorphismsgrowth in groupsstable commutatorsstable lengthstorsion lengths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Commutator calculus (20F12)

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