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$1$–efficient triangulations and the index of a cusped hyperbolic $3$–manifold

### Stavros Garoufalidis, Craig D Hodgson, J Hyam Rubinstein and Henry Segerman

Geometry & Topology 19 (2015) 2619–2689
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