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Study finds the order of Dehn twists in various groups.

Paper examines Dehn twists on non-orientable surfaces and their limitations.

Study of Dehn twists in free groups generates right-angled Artin groups.

The paper explores methods to decompose periodic maps into Dehn twists.

In this note, we establish a relationship between fractional Dehn twist coefficients of Riemann surface automorphisms and modular invariants of holomorphic families of algebraic curves. Specially, we give a characterization of pseudo-periodic maps with nontrivial fractional Dehn twist coefficients. We also obtain some …

It is proved that the stable commutator length of a Dehn twist in the mapping class group is positive and the tenth power of a Dehn twist about a nonseparating simple closed curve is a product of two commutators. As an application a new proof of the fact that the growth rate of a Dehn twist is linear is given.

Calculates Dehn twist actions on conformal blocks for modular categories.

The paper uses Floer homology to study twist coefficients and their behavior after capping off.

We construct nontrivial roots of Dehn twists about nonseparating curves.

The generalized Dehn twist along a closed curve in an oriented surface is an algebraic construction which involves intersections of loops in the surface. It is defined as an automorphism of the Malcev completion of the fundamental group of the surface. As the name suggests, for the case where the curve has no self-inte…

We give a small generating set for the twist subgroup of the mapping class group of a non-orientable surface by Dehn twists. The difference between the number of the generators and a lower bound of numbers of generators for the twist subgroup by Dehn twists is one. The lower bounds is obtained from an argument of Hiros…

Study shows Dehn twist coefficients are consistent across different actions on surfaces.

Boundary Dehn twists become trivial after abelianization.

We study subgroups of the mapping class group of the torus generated by powers generated by powers of Dehn twists. We give a criterion to show when a collection of powers Dehn twists generates a free group using the ping pong lemma. We show that the subgroup generated by three uniform powers of Dehn twists can be eithe…

Study shows exotic Dehn twists on certain 3-sphere fillings.

Study on four-dimensional Dehn twists and Milnor fibrations, revealing new phenomena.

The study examines Heegaard splittings defined by Dehn twists and finds hyperbolic metrics with specific geodesic lengths.

Presentations for involutions on non-orientable surfaces up to genus 5.

Proved boundary Dehn twist is exotic for Milnor fibers with specific conditions.

Margalit and Schleimer constructed nontrivial roots of the Dehn twist about a nonseparating curve. We prove that the conjugacy classes of roots of the Dehn twist about a nonseparating curve correspond to the conjugacy classes of periodic maps with certain conditions. Futhermore, we give data set which determine the con…

By using a notion of a geometric Dehn twist in $\sharp_k(S^2 \times S^1)$, we prove that when projections of two $\mathbb{Z}$-splittings to the free factor complex are far enough from each other in the free factor complex, Dehn twist automorphisms corresponding to the $\mathbb{Z}$-splittings generate a free group of ra…

Given a 3-holed sphere decomposition of an orientable closed surface, it is shown that each orientation preserving homeomorphism of the surface is isotopic to a composition AB where A is a product of positive Dehn twists and B is a product of negative Dehn twists on the decomposition curves.

New relation found in 4D symplectic mapping class group.

We establish a relationship between Heegaard Floer homology and the fractional Dehn twist coefficient of surface automorphisms. Specifically, we show that the rank of the Heegaard Floer homology of a 3-manifold bounds the absolute value of the fractional Dehn twist coefficient of the monodromy of any of its open book d…

Boundary Dehn twist on $K3$ surfaces becomes trivial after abelianization.

For any unoriented loop on a compact connected oriented surface with one boundary component, the generalized Dehn twist along the loop is defined as an automorphism of the completed group ring of the fundamental group of the surface. If the loop is simple, this is the usual right handed Dehn twist, in particular realiz…

Sharp lower bounds for modular invariants and Dehn twist coefficients in genus 2 and 3.

Let $N_g^k$ be a nonorientable surface of genus \ $g\geq 5$ \ with \ $k$-punctures. In this note, we will give an algebraic characterization of a Dehn twist about a simple closed curve on $N_g^k$. Along the way, we will fill some little gaps in the proofs of some theorems in \cite{A} and \cite{I1} giving algebraic char…

We compute the Reidemeister torsion of the complement of a twist knot in $S^3$ and that of the 3-manifold obtained by a Dehn surgery on a twist knot.

We classify all the exceptional Dehn surgeries on the minimally twisted chain links with six and seven components.

Study detects if a circuit bounds a disc using curve intersections.

Study of hyperbolic 3-manifolds via fractional Dehn twists and cusp geometry.

Study of Dehn twists on a disc with 3 points, solving conjugacy problem.

Study shows Dehn twists on certain 4-manifolds cannot be realized by finite order diffeomorphisms.

Johnson kernel generated by specific Dehn twists on surfaces.

A \textit{multicurve} $\C$ on a closed orientable surface is defined to be a finite collection of disjoint non-isotopic essential simple closed curves. The Dehn twist $t_{\C}$ about $\C$ is the product of the Dehn twists about the individual curves. In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the exi…

We classify groups generated by powers of 2 Dehn twists which are 1) free or 2) have no ``unexpected'' reducible elements. We give some sufficient conditions in the case of groups generated by powers of more than two twists.

New invariant shows Dehn twist on connected sum of homology tori is not isotopic to identity.

We introduce a notion of a Fox pairing in a group algebra and use Fox pairings to define automorphisms of the Malcev completions of groups. These automorphisms generalize to the algebraic setting the action of the Dehn twists in the group algebras of the fundamental groups of surfaces. This work is inspired by the Kawa…

Growth rate of Dehn twist lattice points in Teichmüller space is slower than mapping class group lattice points.

The paper generalizes a result on smooth mapping class groups and proves a property of Dehn twists in 4-manifolds.

Characterizes braid types and estimates twist coefficients.

We give new upper bounds on the stable commutator lengths of Dehn twists in mapping class groups and new lower bounds on the stable commutator lengths of Dehn twists in hyperelliptic mapping class groups. In particular, we show that the stable commutator lengths of Dehn twists about a nonseparating and a separating cur…

Solves infinite family of cubic polynomial problems.

This paper computes fixed point Floer cohomology for Dehn twists on surfaces.

Let $N_{g}$ denote a closed nonorientable surface of genus $g$. For $g \geq 2$ the mapping class group $\mathcal{M}(N_{g})$ is generated by Dehn twists and one crosscap slide ($Y$-homeomorphism) or by Dehn twists and a crosscap transposition. Margalit and Schleimer observed that Dehn twists have nontrivial roots. We gi…

Generators found for automorphisms of special groups.

The volume conjecture is proven for twist knots after Dehn filling.