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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, 01003, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael Callahan, David Hoffman & William H. Meeks III

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The research described in this paper was supported by research grant DE-FG02-86ER250125 of the Applied Mathematical Science subprogram of Office of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy, and National Science Foundation grants DMS-8611574 and DMS-8802858

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Callahan, M., Hoffman, D. & Meeks, W.H. The structure of singly-periodic minimal surfaces. Invent Math 99, 455–481 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01234428

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