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Positive factorizations of symmetric mapping classes

Geometric Topology 2017-10-19 v2

Abstract

We study Question 7.9 in the paper "Monoids in the mapping class group" by Etnyre and Van Horn-Morris; whether a symmetric mapping class admitting a positive factorization is a lift of a quasi-positive braid. We answer affirmatively for mapping classes satisfying certain cyclic conditions.

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@article{arxiv.1610.01122,
  title  = {Positive factorizations of symmetric mapping classes},
  author = {Tetsuya Ito and Keiko Kawamuro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01122},
  year   = {2017}
}

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19 pages, 4 figures

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