Mapping class groups of surfaces

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Date 26.02.2015
Hour 09:1510:30
Speaker Nóra Szoke (EPFL)
Location
CM 106
Category Conferences - Seminars
A mapping class group of a manifold M is the group of isotopy classes of automorphisms of M. In this talk, I will consider mapping class groups of oriented surfaces. We will see some examples, the fact that these groups are generated by Dehn twists and some other important results in the subject.

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  • Free

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  • Kathryn Hess

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