Least area incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF02095997zbMath0482.53045OpenAlexW2011333439WikidataQ60961633 ScholiaQ60961633MaRDI QIDQ1162721

Joel Hass, G. P. Scott, Michael Hartley Freedman

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/143008

zbMATH Keywords

least area surfacesself-intersectionsleast area immersionsRiemannian 3-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global submanifolds (53C40)

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