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A presentation for the mapping class group of the closed non-orientable surface of genus 4

Geometric Topology 2010-10-25 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

Finite presentations for the mapping class group M(F) are known for arbitrary orientable compact surface F. If F is non-orientable, then such presentations are known only when F has genus at most 3 and few boundary components. In this paper we obtain finite presentation for the mapping class group of the closed non-orientable surface of genus 4 from its action on the so called ordered complex of curves.

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@article{arxiv.0708.0397,
  title  = {A presentation for the mapping class group of the closed non-orientable surface of genus 4},
  author = {Błażej Szepietowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.0397},
  year   = {2010}
}

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28 pages, 7 figures