Algebraic & Geometric Topology Volume 17, issue 3 (2017)

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Positive factorizations of mapping classes

R İnanç Baykur, Naoyuki Monden and Jeremy Van Horn-Morris

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 17 (2017) 1527–1555

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2017.17.1527

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