The automorphism group of the pants complex
Abstract
Description
We show that the automorphism group of the complex of pants decompositions for a surface is isomorphic to the mapping class group for that surface.
24 Pages, 16 Figures http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~juggler/pants.ps
24 Pages, 16 Figures http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~juggler/pants.ps