Finite type 3-manifold invariants, the mapping class group and blinks

Journal of Differential Geometry

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 257-320

  Garoufalidis, Stavros ^a   Levine, Jerome ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001113067     PISSN: 0022040X     EISSN: 1945743X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/jdg/1214460113     Document Type: Article

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