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By Benson Farb and Dan Margalit. The inspected primary text identifies itself as Version5.0; the preface is dated January2011, rather than a publication date inferred for another edition. Institutional copy: pagine.dm.unipi.it/~a019210/Farb%20Magalit_Primer%20on%20Teichmuller%20theory.pdf

§3.1 defines supported annular Dehn twists; Proposition3.2 in §3.2, printed pages72–73, proves the exact intersection formula for every integer power. §2.3 treats the Alexander method and its filling hypotheses.

Benson Farb works on topology and geometric group theory. His University of Chicago page identifies his research publications and books.^[ref]

With Dan Margalit, he wrote A primer on mapping class groups (Version 5.0) by Benson Farb and Dan Margalit. The book studies symmetries of surfaces up to deformation. A Dehn twist is supported in an annulus, yet repeated twisting has a precisely calculable effect on intersection numbers of curves. This links a local geometric operation with the algebra of a mapping class group.^[ref]