A presentation for the mapping class group of the closed non-orientable surface of genus 4

Błażej Szepietowski

Published 2007-08-02Version 1

Finite presentations for the mapping class group M(F) are known for arbitrary orientable compact surface F. If F is non-orientable, then such presentations are known only when F has genus at most 3 and few boundary components. In this paper we obtain finite presentation for the mapping class group of the closed non-orientable surface of genus 4 from its action on the so called ordered complex of curves.