{
  "id": "math/9811162",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1998-11-27T15:19:12.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-11-27T15:19:12.000Z",
  "title": "A finite presentation of the mapping class group of an oriented surface",
  "authors": [
    "Sylvain Gervais"
  ],
  "comment": "22 pages, LaTeX2e. See also http://www.math.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/~gervais/",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT"
  ],
  "abstract": "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.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1998-11-27T15:19:12.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "57M99",
      "20F05"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "mapping class group",
      "finite presentation",
      "oriented surface",
      "genus greater",
      "considering dehn twists"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 22,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "1998math.....11162G"
    }
  }
}