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Small 3-manifolds of large genus
Ian Agol
We prove the existence of pure braids with arbitrarily many strands which are small, i.e. they contain no closed incompressible surface in the complement which is not boundary para…
math.GT2002
The Computational Complexity of Knot Genus and Spanning Area
Ian Agol, Joel Hass, William P. Thurston
We investigate the computational complexity of some problems in three-dimensional topology and geometry. We show that the problem of determining a bound on the genus of a knot in a…