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Lickorish Twists
Student-Run Research Seminar| Speaker: | Fawcett Jennifer Sunny, UC Davis |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Wed, Dec 5 2001, 12:00AM |
Any homeomorphism of a closed, connected, orientable surface is isotopic to a sequence of Dehn twists. In '62, W. B. R. Lickorish published an elementary and direct proof of this fact. I will present a sketch of his argument.