The topological uniqueness of complete one-ended minimal surfaces and Heegaard surfaces in ℝ³

Frohman, Charles; Meeks, William, III

doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-97-00215-4

The topological uniqueness of complete one-ended minimal surfaces and Heegaard surfaces in $\mathbb {R}^3$
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by Charles Frohman and William H. Meeks III

J. Amer. Math. Soc. 10 (1997), 495-512

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