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A note on the connectivity of certain complexes associated to surfaces
Andrew Putman
This note is devoted to a trick which yields almost trivial proofs that certain complexes associated to topological surfaces are connected or simply connected. Applications include…
math.GT2006★ 38 cited
Cutting and Pasting in the Torelli Group
Andrew Putman
We introduce machinery to allow ``cut-and-paste''-style inductive arguments in the Torelli subgroup of the mapping class group. In the past these arguments have been problematic be…