^.       Selected Papers:

The following papers of mine are available, as indicated, in various formats:

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PS - postscript, compressed with gzip

PDF - portable document format

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Calcut, Jack S. and McCarthy, John D., Topological pullback, covering spaces, and a triad of Quillen, submitted, 2012, 23 pp., LANL (submitted on May 14, 2012), PDF
 

Calcut, Jack S., McCarthy, John D. and Walthers, Jeremy J., Topological and algebraic pullback functors, submitted, 2012, 27 pp., LANL (submitted on May 14, 2012), PDF
 

Calcut, Jack S., Gompf, Robert E. and McCarthy, John D. On fundamental groups of quotient spaces., Topology and its Applications 159 (2012), 322-330, LANL (submitted on 28 Apr 2009 (v1) - Contains detailed proofs for our original examples; lacks historical references, simplicial observations, and some newer examples.), LANL (submitted on 6 Mar 2011 (v2)), LANL (last revised on 22 Sep 2011 (v3)), PDF
 

McCarthy, John D. and Papadopoulos, Athanase, Simplicial actions of mapping class groups, a revision of "Automorphisms of the complex of domains", Handbook of Teichmueller theory, Volume III, European Mathematical Society Publishing House, Zurich, (2012), pp. 297-424. PDF.
 

Irmak, Elmas and McCarthy, John D., Injective simplicial maps of the arc complex, Turk J Math 33 (2009) 1-16 (available online 14 Sep 2009), Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik, Preprint Series 2006 (77), LANL (submitted on 24 Jun 2006 (v1)), LANL (last revised on 4 Dec 2008 (v2)), PDF.
 

Calcut, Jack S. and McCarthy, John D., Discreteness and homogeneity of the topological fundamental group, Top. Proc. 34 (2009), 339-349. (e-published on July 22, 2009), LANL (submitted on 30 Apr 2009), PDF.
 

McCarthy, John D. and Papadoulos, Athanase, Automorphisms of the complex of domains, Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik, Preprint Series 2006 (76), LANL (submitted on 23 Jun 2006), PDF.
 

McCarthy, John D. and Vautaw, William R., Automorphisms of Torelli groups, LANL (submitted on 14 Nov 2003), PDF.
 

Irmak, Elmas; Ivanov, Nikolai V.; and McCarthy, John D., Automorphisms of surface braid groups, LANL (submitted on 3 Jun 2003), PDF.
 

(MR 2001m:57029) McCarthy, John D., On the first cohomology group of cofinite subgroups in surface mapping class groups, Topology, Vol. 40 (2) (2001) 401-418, PDF, PS.
 

(MR 2001c:57024) McCarthy, John D., On the asphericity of a symplectic M^3 x S^1, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 257-264, LANL (Submitted on 16 Jul 1998 (v1)), LANL (Submitted on 23 Jul 1998 (v2)), LANL (Submitted on 25 Jan 1999 (v3)), LANL (last revised 9 Jul 1999 (v4)), PDF, PS.
 

(MR 2001c:57021) Korkmaz, Mustafa and McCarthy, John D., Surface mapping class groups are ultrahopfian, Math. Proc. of the Camb. Phil. Soc., Volume 129, Issue 01. July 2000. 35-53, PDF, PS.
 

(MR 2000i:32025) McCarthy, John D. and Papadopoulos, Athanase, The mapping class group and a theorem of Masur-Wolf, Topology and its Applications, Vol. 96 (1) (1999) 75-84, PDF, PS.
 

(MR 2000h:32016) McCarthy, John D. and Papadopoulos, Athanase, The visual sphere of Teichmuller space and a theorem of Masur-Wolf, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Ser. A I Math. 24 (1999), 147-154, PDF, PS.
 

(MR 99m:57014) Ivanov, Nikolai V. and McCarthy, John D., On injective homomorphisms between Teichmuller modular groups I, Invent. Math. 135 (1999), no. 2, 425-486, PDF, PS.
 

(MR 99f:57041) McCarthy, John D. and Wolfson, Jon G., Symplectic resolution of isolated algebraic singularities, CRM Proc. and Lect. Notes, vol. 15, 101-105, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1998, PDF, PS.
 

(MR 97e:57033) McCarthy, John D. and Wolfson, Jon G., Double points and the proper transform in symplectic geometry, Differential Geom. Appl. 6 (1996), no. 2, 101-107, PDF, PS.
 

(MR 97a:30058) McCarthy, John D. and Papadopoulos, Athanase, Fundamental domains in Teichmueller space, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Ser. A I Math. 21 (1996), no. 1, 151-166, PDF, PS.
 

(MR 96d:57015) McCarthy, John D., Weierstrass points and Z2 homology, Topology Appl. 63 (1995), no. 2, 173-188, PDF, PS.
 

(MR 96b:57040) McCarthy, John D. and Wolfson, Jon G., Symplectic gluing along hypersurfaces and resolution of isolated orbifold singularities, Invent. Math. 119 (1995), no. 1, 129-154, PDF, PS.
 

(MR 95h:57038) McCarthy, John D. and Wolfson, Jon G., Symplectic normal connect sum, Topology 33 (1994), no. 4, 729-764, PDF, PS.
 

McCarthy, John D. and Pinkall, Ulrich, Representing homology automorphisms of nonorientable surfaces, Max Planck Inst. preprint MPI/SFB 85-11, revised version written on 26 Feb 2004, PDF.
 

McCarthy, John D., Normalizers and centralizers of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes, preprint (1982), revised version written on June 8, 1994, PDF, PS.