My publications and preprints

 

·              Lefschetz fibrations and an invariant of finitely presented groups,  Preprint, arXiv:  math.GT/0703196

 

·              Problems on homomorphisms of mapping class groups, Problems on Mapping Class groups and Related Topics, B. Farb Ed., Amer. Math. Soc.,  Proc. Symp. Pure Math., 74 (2006), 85 -- 94. abstract or ps.

·         On sections of elliptic fibrations (J. with Burak Ozbagci), Michigan Math. J. 56 (2008) 77--87.  abstract. or ps or pdf (April 2006 version).

 

·          Automorphisms of the Hatcher-Thurston complex (J. with E. Irmak),  Israel Journal of Mathematics 162(2207) 183--196  (arxiv:math.GT / 0409033).
    abstract  or ps  (November 2004 version).

 

·          Generating the surface mapping class group by two elements, Transections of Amer. Math. Soc. 357 (2005), 3299—3310.  abstract  or ps  (October 2003 version).

 

·         On stable torsion length of a Dehn twist, Mathematical Research Letters 12 (2005), 335—339.

 

·         Homomorphisms from mapping class groups (J. with W. Harvey), Bulletin of London Math. Soc. 37 (2005), 275--284.  abstract  or ps  (June 2003 version)

 

·         On cofinite subgroups of mapping class groups, Proceedings of 9th Gokova Geometry-Topology Conference, Turkish Journal of Mathematics 27 no. 1 (2003), 115-123.  abstract

 

·         Low-dimensional homology groups of mapping class groups: a survey, Proceedings of 8th Gokova Geometry-Topology Conference, Turkish Journal of Mathematics 26 no. 1 (2002),  101-114. abstract  or ps  (November 2001 version).

 

·         The second homology groups of mapping class groups of orientable surfaces (J. with Andras Stipsicz), Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 134 No.3 (2003), 479-489. abstract  or ps  (May 2001 version).

 

·         Stable commutator length of a Dehn twist, Michigan Math. J. 52 (2004), 23--31.   abstract  or ps  (October 2002 version).

 

·         Commutators, Lefschetz fibrations and signatures of surface bundles, (J. with Hisaaki. Endo, Dieter Kotschick , Burak Ozbagci , Andras Stipsicz),  Topology 41 No.5 (2002), 961-977. abstract,  or  ps (July 2000 version).

 

·         Mapping class groups of nonorientable surfaces, Geometriae Dedicata 89 (2002), 109-133. abstract,  or  ps  (February 2000 version).

 

·         Noncomplex smooth 4-manifolds with Lefschetz fibrations, Internat. Math. Res. Notices  2001 no. 3, 115-128.   abstract or ps  (February 2000 version).

 

·         Minimal number of singular fibers in a Lefschetz fibration (J. with Burak Ozbagci), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 no. 5 (2001) 1545-1549.   abstract.

 

·         On endomorphisms of surface mapping class groups, Topology 40 no. 3 (2001), 463-467.   abstract.

 

·         On the linearity of certain mapping class groups, Turkish Journal of Mathematics 24 no. 4  (2000), 367-371. abstract,  or  ps (October 2000 version).

 

·         Surface mapping class groups are ultrahopfian (J. with John D. McCarthy),  Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 129 no. 1 (2000), 35-53.  abstract.

 

·         Automorphisms of complexes of curves on punctured spheres and on punctured tori, Topology and its Applications  95 no. 2 (1999), 85-111. abstract.

 

·         First homology group of mapping class groups of nonorientable surfaces,  Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 123 no.3 (1998), 487-499.  abstract.


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