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arxiv: 0904.3129 · v1 · submitted 2009-04-20 · 🧮 math.GT

Outer Automorphisms of Mapping Class Groups of Nonorientable Surfaces

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Let Ng be the connected closed nonorientable surface of genus g >= 5 and Mod(Ng) denote the mapping class group of Ng. We prove that the outer automorphism group of Mod(Ng) is either trivial or Z if g is odd, and injects into the mapping class group of sphere with four holes if g is even.

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