Realization of the mapping class group by homeomorphisms

In this paper, we show that the mapping class group of a closed surface can not be geometrically realized as a group of homeomorphisms of that surface. More precisely, let denote the standard projection of the group of homeomorphisms to the mapping class group of a closed surface M of genus g>5. We show that there is no homomorphism , such that is the identity. This answers a question by Thurston (see [11]). Mathematics Subject Classification (2000)  Primary 20H10, 37F30