The Occurrence Problem for Mapping Class Groups

DOI10.2307/2046379MaRDI QIDQ3788192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Stillwell

Publication date 1987

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2046379

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupbraid groupsunsolvabilityclosed orientable surfacegeneralized word problemtwist mapping

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

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