On the commutator length of a Dehn twist

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2010.07.011zbMATH Open1195.57044arXiv1007.0132OpenAlexW2006785858MaRDI QIDQ990253FDOQ990253

Authors: Błazej Szepietowski 

Publication date: 6 September 2010

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that on a nonorientable surface of genus at least 7 any power of a Dehn twist is equal to a single commutator in the mapping class group and the same is true, under additional assumptions, for the twist subgroup, and also for the extended mapping class group of an orientable surface of genus at least 3.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0132

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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