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Complexity of $3$-manifolds obtained by Dehn filling

William Jaco, Joachim Hyam Rubinstein, Jonathan Spreer and Stephan Tillmann

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 25 (2025) 301–327

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2025.25.301

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