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Surfaces minimizing area in their homology class and group actions on 3-manifolds

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Research supported in part by NSF grant DMS 84-14077

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Hass, J. Surfaces minimizing area in their homology class and group actions on 3-manifolds. Math Z 199, 501–509 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01161639

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