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A closed ball compactification of a maximal component via cores of trees

Giuseppe Martone, Charles Ouyang and Andrea Tamburelli

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 24 (2024) 3693–3717

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2024.24.3693

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