Abstract
We use equivariant surgery to classify all involutions on closed surfaces, up to isomorphism. Work on this problem is classical, dating back to the nineteenth century, with a complete classification finally appearing in the 1990s. In this paper we give a different approach to the classification, using techniques that are more accessible to algebraic topologists as well as a new invariant (which we call the double-Dickson invariant) for distinguishing the “hard” cases.
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