Quasi-homomorphisms on mapping class groups

  • Koji Fujiwara

    Kyoto University, Japan
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Abstract

This is a survey on quasi-homomorphisms on mapping class groups based on the hyperbolic geometry in the sense of Gromov. We stress the analogy between word-hyperbolic groups and mapping class groups in many aspects.