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