{ "id": "1608.04501", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-08-16T07:04:59.000Z", "updated": "2016-08-16T07:04:59.000Z", "title": "Abelian subgroups of the mapping class groups for non-orientable surfaces", "authors": [ "Erika Kuno" ], "comment": "9 pages, 3 figures", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "Birman-Lubotzky-McCarthy proved that any abelian subgroup of the mapping class groups for orientable surfaces is finitely generated. We apply Birman-Lubotzky-McCarthy's arguments to the mapping class groups for non-orientable surfaces. We especially find a finitely generated group isomorphic to a given torsion-free subgroup of the mapping class groups.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-08-16T07:04:59.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20F38", "20K27" ], "keywords": [ "mapping class groups", "abelian subgroup", "non-orientable surfaces", "torsion-free subgroup", "apply birman-lubotzky-mccarthys arguments" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 9, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }