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A minimal generating set of the level 2 mapping class group of a non-orientable surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2014

SUSUMU HIROSE  and
MASATOSHI SATO
SUSUMU HIROSE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan e-mail: hirose_susumu@ma.noda.tus.ac.jp
MASATOSHI SATO
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagito, Gifu, 501-1193, Japan e-mail: msato@gifu-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

We construct a minimal generating set of the level 2 mapping class group of a nonorientable surface of genus g, and determine its abelianization for g ≥ 4.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 157 , Issue 2 , September 2014 , pp. 345 - 355
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2014 

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