Least area tori in $3$-manifolds
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Abstract:
We consider incompressible maps of the torus into a $3$-manifold that have least possible area among all such maps. We show that such a map must be an embedding in many cases.References
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- © Copyright 1992 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 116 (1992), 1143-1151
- MSC: Primary 57N10; Secondary 53A10, 53C42
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1992-1131040-0
- MathSciNet review: 1131040