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The title says it all. I am looking for an explanation or reference for why the homology of the ribbon graph complex computes the cohomology of the mapping class groups of surfaces. I've seen ...

Let $\text{Mod}_g$ be the mapping class group of a closed oriented genus-$g$ surface $\Sigma_g$ and let $H = H_1(\Sigma_g;\mathbb{Q})$. Fix some $r \geq 0$. It is known that the cohomology group $H^...

There is a result on the dimension bound for ${M_{g,n}}/S_n$, (the moduli space for Riemann surfaces of genus $g$ with $n$ marked points) that is $H_{i}({M_{g,n}}/S_n)=0$, for $i\ge 6g-7+2n$ except $(...

If $M_{g}$ is the moduli space of Riemann surface of genus $g$, $M^1_{g}$ is the moduli space of Riemann surface of genus $g$ with one boundary, how can we show that the natural map: $M^1_{g} \...