Mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces for beginners
Luis Paris1
1 Université de Bourgogne, Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, UMR 5584 du CNRS, B.P. 47870, 21078 Dijon cedex, France.
Winter Braids Lecture Notes, Volume 1 (2014), Talk no. 3, 17 p.

The present paper is the notes of a mini-course addressed mainly to non-experts. Its purpose is to provide a first approach to the theory of mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces.

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DOI: 10.5802/wbln.4
Luis Paris 1

1 Université de Bourgogne, Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, UMR 5584 du CNRS, B.P. 47870, 21078 Dijon cedex, France. 
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Luis Paris. Mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces for beginners. Winter Braids Lecture Notes, Volume 1 (2014), Talk no. 3, 17 p. doi : 10.5802/wbln.4. https://proceedings.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/wbln.4/

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