 Mapping-class action on the outer automorphism group of the fundamental group (source code)

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= Mapping-class action on the outer automorphism group of the fundamental group

A self-homeomorphism of a connected surface induces an automorphism of its fundamental group after a path from the old basepoint to its image is chosen. Changing that path changes the automorphism by an inner automorphism, so isotopy classes define a homomorphism
$$
\operatorname{Mod}(S)\longrightarrow\operatorname{Out}(\pi_1(S)).
$$

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