Free products in mapping class groups generated by Dehn twists

DOI10.1017/S001708950000776XzbMath0679.57004MaRDI QIDQ4729022

Stephen P. Humphries

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Glasgow Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn-twistsmapping class group of a closed orientable surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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