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A finite presentation of the mapping class group of an oriented surface

Sylvain Gervais

Published 1998-11-27Version 1

We give a finite presentation of the mapping class group of an oriented (possibly bounded) surface of genus greater or equal than 1, considering Dehn twists on a very simple set of curves.

Comments: 22 pages, LaTeX2e. See also http://www.math.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/~gervais/
Categories: math.GT
Subjects: 57M99, 20F05
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