A chord diagrammatic presentation of the mapping class group of a once bordered surface

The virtual cohomological dimension of the mapping class group of an orientable surface

John Harer · Inventiones mathematicae · 1986 · 455 citations

Virtual Cohomological Dimension, Orientable Surface, Global Geometry +6

The decorated Teichm�ller space of punctured surfaces

Robert Penner · Communications in Mathematical Physics · 1987 · 426 citations

Global Geometry, Physics, Natural Sciences +3

Decorated Teichmüller theory of bordered surfaces

Robert Penner · Communications in Analysis and Geometry · 2004 · 48 citations · Full text

The unstable integral homology of the mapping class groups of a surface with boundary

Véronique Godin · Mathematische Annalen · 2006 · 25 citations

Integral Geometry, Mapping Class Groups, Unstable Integral Homology +4

Canonical extensions of the Johnson homomorphisms to the Torelli groupoid

Alex James Bene, Nariya Kawazumi, Robert Penner · Advances in Mathematics · 2009 · 21 citations

Coxeter Group, Schubert Calculus, Geometric Group Theory +5