Dehn twists have roots

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We show that every Dehn twist in the mapping class group of a closed, connected, orientable surface of genus at least two has a nontrivial root. © 2009 Mathematical Sciences Publishers.

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Margalit, D., & Schleimer, S. (2009). Dehn twists have roots. Geometry and Topology, 13(3), 1495–1497. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2009.13.1495

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