Different versions of mapping class groups of surfaces

Abstract

We give a short, mostly elementary and self-contained proof of the classical result that the groups of diffeomorphisms, homeomorphisms, and homotopy equivalences of a surface have the same group of connected components.

18 pages, 2 figures

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