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I am sorry, but there a still a couple of things I still don't get. I'll write here, there may be naive mistakes, please correct me if I am wrong. $PMCG(S_g^b)$ is generated by Dehn twists around non-trivial simple closed curves, right? Every non-trivial simple closed of $S_g^b$ can be seen as a non-trivial simple closed curve in $S_{g,b}$, so it seems that $PMCG(S_g^b)$ is "naturally" a subgroup of $PMCG(S_{g,b})$. So why does the inclusion $PMCG(S_{g}^b) \to PMCG(S_{g,b})$ not split the sequence above? Thank you in advance.
I know that paper, it's about triangulations of a polygon. Labelled points are inside the disk in my case. Methods used are pure hyperbolic geometry (!)