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Intersection norms on surfaces and Birkhoff sections for geodesic flows

Marcos Cossarini and Pierre Dehornoy

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 25 (2025) 4499–4545

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2025.25.4499

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