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Presentation and central extensions of mapping class groups

Author(s): Sylvain Gervais
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), 3097-3132.
MSC (1991): Primary 57N05, 20F05; Secondary 20F34, 20F38, 57M05
MathSciNet review: 1327256
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Abstract: We give a presentation of the mapping class group $\mathcal {M}$ of a (possibly bounded) surface, considering either all twists or just non-separating twists as generators. We also study certain central extensions of $\mathcal {M}$ . One of them plays a key role in studying TQFT functors, namely the mapping class group of a $p_1$ -structure surface. We give a presentation of this extension.

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Sylvain Gervais
Affiliation: URA n° 758 du C.N.R.S., Université de Nantes, Département de Mathématiques, 2 Rue de la Houssinière, F-44072 Nantes Cedex 03, France
Email: gervais@math.univ-nantes.fr

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01509-7
PII: S 0002-9947(96)01509-7
Keywords: Mapping class groups, $p_1$-structure, central extensions, presentation
Received by editor(s): May 25, 1994
Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 5, 1995
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society

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