Recognising mapping classes

This thesis focuses on three decision problems in the mapping class groups of surfaces, namely the reducibility, pseudo-Anosov and conjugacy problems. For a fixed surface, we use ideal triangulations to model both its mapping class group and space of measured laminations. This allows us to state the...

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Main Author: Bell, Mark Christopher
Published: University of Warwick 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.682857