Hierarchical Morse-Smale complexes for piecewise linear 2-manifolds

Discrete and Computational Geometry

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-107

  Edelsbrunner, Herbert ^a,b   Harer, John ^c   Zomorodian, Afra ^d  

^a Department of Computer Science Duke University ^*  (United States)

^b Raindrop Geomagic   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 0037971839     PISSN: 01795376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00454-003-2926-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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