{
  "id": "math/9809155",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1998-09-28T01:59:48.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-09-28T01:59:48.000Z",
  "title": "Groups Generated by Powers of Dehn Twists",
  "authors": [
    "Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani"
  ],
  "comment": "16 pages",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT"
  ],
  "abstract": "We classify groups generated by powers of 2 Dehn twists which are 1) free or 2) have no ``unexpected'' reducible elements. We give some sufficient conditions in the case of groups generated by powers of more than two twists.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1998-09-28T01:59:48.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "20F38"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "dehn twists",
      "sufficient conditions"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 16,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "1998math......9155H"
    }
  }
}