Algebraic & Geometric Topology Volume 6, issue 1 (2006)

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Sweepouts of amalgamated 3–manifolds

David Bachman, Saul Schleimer and Eric Sedgwick

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 6 (2006) 171–194

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2006.6.171

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