{ "id": "1602.07419", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-02-24T07:11:25.000Z", "updated": "2016-02-24T07:11:25.000Z", "title": "Generators for the mapping class group of the nonorientable surface", "authors": [ "Susumu Hirose" ], "comment": "5 pages, 3 figures", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "We show that Szepietowski's system of generators (arXiv:1108.3927) for the mapping class group of the non-orientable surface is the minimal generating set by Dehn twists and $Y$-homemorphisms.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-02-24T07:11:25.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57N05", "20F38" ], "keywords": [ "mapping class group", "nonorientable surface", "generators", "dehn twists", "szepietowskis system" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2016arXiv160207419H" } } }