Surfaces in the figure-8 knot complement

Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1005-1025

  Aitchison, I R ^a   Matsumoto, S ^a   Rubinstein, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Immersions; Normal Surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032286698     PISSN: 02182165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218216598000541     Document Type: Article

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