Local detection of strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings

Topology and its Applications

Volumn 90, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 135-147

  Scharlemann, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compression body; Heegaard splitting; Strongly irreducible

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010565329     PISSN: 0016660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-8641(97)00184-3     Document Type: Article

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