All finite groups are involved in the Mapping Class Group

Abstract

Let g denote the orientation-preserving Mapping Class Group of the genus g≥ 1 closed orientable surface. In this paper we show that for fixed g, every finite group occurs as a quotient of a finite index subgroup of g.

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