Train tracks and zipping sequences for pseudo-Anosov braids

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 9, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 793-809

  Kleinberg, Robert D ^a   Menasco, William W ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BRAIDS THEORY; DIFFEOMORPHISM; PSEUDO-ANOSOV HOMEOMORPHISM; ZIPPING SEQUENCE;

SET THEORY;

EID: 0032045734     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(97)00104-5     Document Type: Article

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