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Incompressible surfaces in 2-bridge knot complements

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaka, NY, USA

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  2. Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA

    W. Thurston

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Hatcher, A., Thurston, W. Incompressible surfaces in 2-bridge knot complements. Invent Math 79, 225–246 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01388971

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