This book is concerned with the calculation of the cohomology of the mapping class group of a closed oriented surface of genus two. The methods used involve braid groups, modular representations of symmetric groups, and configuration spaces.
| ISBN: | 9780821825068 |
| Publication date: | 30th July 1991 |
| Author: | D J Benson, Frederick R Cohen |
| Publisher: | American Mathematical Society |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 104 pages |
| Series: | Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society |
| Genres: |
Mathematics |