Automorphisms of the mapping class group of a nonorientable surface

Let $S$ be a nonorientable surface of genus $g\ge 5$ with $n\ge 0$ punctures, and $\text{Mcg}(S)$ its mapping class group. We define the complexity of $S$ to be the maximum rank of a free abelian subgroup of $\text{Mcg}(S)$. Suppose that $S_1$ and $S_2$ are two such surfaces of the same complexity. We prove that every isomorphism $\text{Mcg}(S_1)\to \text{Mcg}(S_2)$ is induced by a diffeomorphism $S_1\to S_2$. This is an analogue of Ivanov’s theorem on automorphisms of the mapping class groups of an orientable surface, and also an extension and improvement of the first author’s previous result.