Finite Groups of Mapping Classes of Surfaces

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Author(s): Heiner Zieschang (auth.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics 875
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1981

Language: English
Pages: 344
City: Berlin; New York
Tags: Group Theory and Generalizations

On the Nielsen realization problem, preliminaries....Pages 1-64
Tori, crystallographic groups and the realization of mapping classes....Pages 65-139
Marked Riemann surfaces and Fuchsian groups and Fenchel's realization theorem....Pages 140-203
The Nielsen construction of finite groups of mapping classes....Pages 204-253
On the Nielsen realization problem....Pages 254-295
On finite groups of mapping classes of 3-manifolds: Some applications....Pages 296-329