A bundle with base B and fibre F aspherical closed surfaces has a section if and only if the action :π1(B)→Out(π1(F)) factors through Aut(π1(F)) and a cohomology class is 0. We simplify and make more explicit the latter condition.
AMS Subject Classification: Primary 20J05; secondary 57N13.
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