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19982020
most citedTopological Index Theory for Surfaces in 3-Manifolds

60 citations · 228 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

math.GT2020★ 2 cited

Cohomology fractals, Cannon-Thurston maps, and the geodesic flow

David Bachman, Matthias Goerner, Saul Schleimer +1

Cohomology fractals are images naturally associated to cohomology classes in hyperbolic three-manifolds. We generate these images for cusped, incomplete, and closed hyperbolic thre…

math.GT2020★ 1 cited

Cohomology fractals

David Bachman, Saul Schleimer, Henry Segerman

We introduce cohomology fractals; these are certain images associated to a cohomology class on a hyperbolic three-manifold. They include images made entirely from circles, and also…

math.GT2016

Computing Heegaard genus is NP-hard

David Bachman, Ryan Derby-Talbot, Eric Sedgwick

We show that {\sc Heegaard Genus }, the problem of deciding whether a triangulated 3-manifold admits a Heegaard splitting of genus less than or equal to , is NP-hard. Th…

math.GT2015

Locally Helical Surfaces have bounded twisting

David Bachman, Ryan Derby-Talbot, Eric Sedgwick

A topologically minimal surface may be isotoped into a normal form with respect to a fixed triangulation. If the intersection with each tetrahedron is simply connected, then the pi…

math.GT2013★ 8 cited

Normalizing Topologically Minimal Surfaces III: Bounded Combinatorics

David Bachman

We show that there are a finite number of possible pictures for a surface in a tetrahedron with local index . Combined with previous results, this establishes that any topologic…

math.GT2012★ 11 cited

Normalizing Topologically Minimal Surfaces II: Disks

David Bachman

We show that a topologically minimal disk in a tetrahedron with index is either a normal triangle, a normal quadrilateral, or a normal helicoid with boundary length 4(n+1). Thi…