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Homeomorphisms and the homology of non-orientable surfaces

Siddhartha Gadgil, Dishant Pancholi

math.GNarXiv:math/0607693

Abstract

We show that, for a closed non-orientable surface F, an automorphism of H1(F,) is induced by a homeomorphism of F if and only if it preserves the (mod 2) intersection pairing. We shall also prove the corresponding result for punctured surfaces.

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