Hyperbolic structures on knot complements

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 9, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 705-738

  Callahan, P J ^a   Reid, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; TERMINOLOGY; TOPOLOGY;

HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY; KNOT COMPLEMENTS; KNOT THEORY; THURSTON'S THEOREM;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0032050743     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(97)00106-9     Document Type: Article

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