2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/146279By recognizing them as fundamental groups of developable complexes of groups we prove that mapping class groups of compact orientable surfaces have finite asymptotic dimension.Withdrawn due to a critical error in Theorem 3 of [5] on which the main result reliedGroup TheoryGeometric Topology20F69, 57M99Mapping class groups have finite asymptotic dimensiontext