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Characteristic subsurfaces, character varieties and Dehn fillings

Steve Boyer, Marc Culler, Peter B Shalen and Xingru Zhang

Geometry & Topology 12 (2008) 233–297

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2008.12.233

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