On topologically minimal surfaces of high genus

On topologically minimal surfaces of high genus
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 143 (2015), 2725-2730 Request permission

We show that an irreducible $3$-manifold containing an incompressible surface has topologically minimal surfaces of arbitrary high genus.

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