Involutions in surface mapping class groups
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Publication:1109372
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Athanase Papadopoulos, John D. McCarthy
Publication date: 1987
Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)
involutionsreduciblepseudo-Anosovmapping class group of a closed orientable surfaceproduct of two involutionsproduct of two elliptic involutionsThurston-compactification of the Teichmüller space
Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)
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