Splittings of surfaces

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 605-616

  Skora, Richard K ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperbolic space; R tree; Splitting; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030529002     PISSN: 08940347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0894-0347-96-00205-6     Document Type: Article

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