Mapping class groups of covers with boundary and braid group embeddings

DOI10.2140/agt.2020.20.239zbMath1447.57025arXiv1804.10609OpenAlexW3099498986MaRDI QIDQ1985992

Tyrone Ghaswala, Alan McLeay

Publication date: 7 April 2020

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10609

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsmapping class groupscovering spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

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