The size of spanning disks for polygonal curves

DOI10.1007/s00454-002-2707-6zbMath1015.57008arXivmath/9906197OpenAlexW2017477785WikidataQ56970655 ScholiaQ56970655MaRDI QIDQ1864124

William P. Thurston, Joel Hass, Jack Scott Snoeyink

Publication date: 17 March 2003

Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9906197

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theoryinvariant train trackspanning disk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smooth approximations in differential topology (57R12) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Differential topology (57R99) PL-topology (57Q99)

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