A user's guide to the mapping class group: Once punctured surfaces
A user's guide to the mapping class group: Once punctured surfaces
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映射类组用户指南:一旦被刺穿的表面
DOI:
10.1090/dimacs/025/08
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发表时间:
1994
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通讯作者:
L. Mosher
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作者:
L. Mosher
This document is a practical guide to computations using an automatic structure for the mapping class group of a once-punctured, oriented surface $S$. We describe a quadratic time algorithm for the word problem in this group, which can be implemented efficiently with pencil and paper. The input of the algorithm is a word, consisting of ``chord diagrams'' of ideal triangulations and elementary moves, which represents an element of the mapping class group. The output is a word called a ``normal form'' that uniquely represents the same group element.