The Occurrence Problem for Mapping Class Groups

DOI10.2307/2046379zbMath0645.20019OpenAlexW4238747735MaRDI QIDQ3788192

John Stillwell

Publication date: 1987

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2046379

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsgeneralized word problemmapping class groupclosed orientable surfaceunsolvabilitytwist mapping

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Related Items (1)

Right-angled Artin groups and a generalized isomorphism problem for finitely generated subgroups of mapping class groups

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