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Dynamics on Thurston’s sphere of projective measured foliations

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Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, A228 Wells Hall, 48224, East Lansing, MI

    John McCarthy

  2. CNRS, Mathématiques, Université Louis Pasteur, 7 rue René Descartes, 67084, Strasbourg Cedex

    Athanase Papadopoulos

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McCarthy, J., Papadopoulos, A. Dynamics on Thurston’s sphere of projective measured foliations. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 64, 133–166 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02564666

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