An exposition of Poincaré's polyhedron theorem

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Carlo Petronio, David B. A. Epstein

Publication date: 16 March 1995

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

orbifoldsfundamental domainisometriesPoincaré's polyhedron theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational aspects related to convexity (52B55)

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