%0 Journal Article %A J.L. Harer %T The virtual cohomological dimension of the mapping class group of an orientable surface. %J Inventiones mathematicae %D 1986 %P 157-176 %V 84 %I mathdoc %U http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/IM_1986__84_143338/ %F IM_1986__84_143338