Geometry & Topology Volume 11, issue 2 (2007)

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Shapes of geodesic nets

Alexander Nabutovsky and Regina Rotman

Geometry & Topology 11 (2007) 1225–1254

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2007.11.1225

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