TY - BOOK AU - Matsumoto,Yukio AU - Montesinos-Amilibia,José María ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Pseudo-periodic Maps and Degeneration of Riemann Surfaces T2 - Lecture Notes in Mathematics, SN - 9783642225345 AV - QA564-609 U1 - 516.35 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Mathematics KW - Geometry, algebraic KW - Cell aggregation KW - Algebraic Geometry KW - Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology) N1 - Part I: Conjugacy Classification of Pseudo-periodic Mapping Classes -- 1 Pseudo-periodic Maps -- 2 Standard Form -- 3 Generalized Quotient -- 4 Uniqueness of Minimal Quotient -- 5 A Theorem in Elementary Number Theory -- 6 Conjugacy Invariants -- Part II: The Topology of Degeneration of Riemann Surfaces -- 7 Topological Monodromy -- 8 Blowing Down Is a Topological Operation -- 9 Singular Open-Book N2 - The first part of the book studies pseudo-periodic maps of a closed surface of genus greater than or equal to two. This class of homeomorphisms was originally introduced by J. Nielsen in 1944 as an extension of periodic maps. In this book, the conjugacy classes of the (chiral) pseudo-periodic mapping classes are completely classified, and Nielsen’s incomplete classification is corrected. The second part applies the results of the first part to the topology of degeneration of Riemann surfaces. It is shown that the set of topological types of all the singular fibers appearing in one-parameter holomorphic families of Riemann surfaces is in a bijective correspondence with the set of conjugacy classes of the pseudo-periodic maps of negative twists. The correspondence is given by the topological monodromy UR - http://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-22534-5 ER -