{ "id": "0803.0539", "version": "v3", "published": "2008-03-04T20:33:37.000Z", "updated": "2017-04-18T18:05:03.000Z", "title": "The abelianization of the level L mapping class group", "authors": [ "Andrew Putman" ], "comment": "9 pages, 1 figure; permanent preprint; added historical note discussing subsequent work on the subject", "categories": [ "math.GT", "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We calculate the abelianizations of the level $L$ subgroup of the genus $g$ mapping class group and the level $L$ congruence subgroup of the $2g \\times 2g$ symplectic group for $L$ odd and $g \\geq 3$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2008-03-12T19:47:43.000Z", "title": "The abelianization of the level $L$ mapping class group", "comment": "8 pages, 1 figure, fixed several typos and added several clarifications", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v3", "updated": "2017-04-18T18:05:03.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "mapping class group", "abelianization", "congruence subgroup" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 9, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2008arXiv0803.0539P" } } }