Generating the mapping class group by torsion elements of small order

DOI10.1017/S0305004112000357MaRDI QIDQ4902497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Naoyuki Monden

Publication date 15 January 2013

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.5080

zbMATH Keywords

generatorsDehn twistorientable surfacestorsion elementsmapping class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We show that the mapping class group of a closed oriented surface of genus at least three is generated by 3 elements of order 3 and by 4 elements of order 4. Note that the mapping class group cannot be generated by finitely many torsion elements of same order if genus is equal to one or two.

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