An Algorithm for Simple Curves on Surfaces

DOI10.1112/jlms/s2-29.2.331zbMath0507.57006OpenAlexW2037515206MaRDI QIDQ4744988

Caroline Series, Joan S. Birman

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms/s2-29.2.331

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algorithm for simple curves on surfacesgeodesics in the universal coverNielsen boundary expansionsword representing a simple curve

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