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All finite groups are involved in the mapping class group

All finite groups are involved in the mapping class group

Let $\Gamma_g$ denote the orientation-preserving Mapping Class Group of the genus $g\geq 1$ closed orientable surface. In this paper we show that for fixed $g$, every finite group occurs as a quotient of a finite index subgroup of $\Gamma_g$.