Mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces for beginners

2014/10/05 by Paris, Luis · 3 citations
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1410.1123

Abstract

The present paper are the notes of a mini-course addressed mainly to non-experts. It purpose it to provide a first approach to the theory of mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces.

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