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Outer Automorphisms of Mapping Class Groups of Nonorientable Surfaces

Geometric Topology 2009-04-22 v1

Abstract

Let Ng be the connected closed nonorientable surface of genus g >= 5 and Mod(Ng) denote the mapping class group of Ng. We prove that the outer automorphism group of Mod(Ng) is either trivial or Z if g is odd, and injects into the mapping class group of sphere with four holes if g is even.

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@article{arxiv.0904.3129,
  title  = {Outer Automorphisms of Mapping Class Groups of Nonorientable Surfaces},
  author = {Ferihe Atalan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.3129},
  year   = {2009}
}

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21 pages,8 figures

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