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Generators for the mapping class group of a nonorientable surface

Geometric Topology 2016-11-02 v2

Abstract

We show that Szepietowski's system of generators for the mapping class group of a non-orientable surface is a minimal generating set by Dehn twists and YY-homemorphisms.

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@article{arxiv.1602.07419,
  title  = {Generators for the mapping class group of a nonorientable surface},
  author = {Susumu Hirose},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07419},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures, Theorem 2 and its proof was revised

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