Least area incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF02095997zbMath0482.53045WikidataQ60961633 ScholiaQ60961633MaRDI QIDQ1162721

G. P. Scott, Joel Hass, 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 surfaces; self-intersections; least area immersions; Riemannian 3-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C42: Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.)

53C40: Global submanifolds

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