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William Jaco

WJ

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Publications

26

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Active since

1969

Affiliations

Oklahoma State University(Current)

The University of Melbourne

University of Michigan

Rice University

Institute for Advanced Study

William Jaco is an author at Oklahoma State University specializing in geometry, computational geometry, and geometric group theory.

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GeometryComputational GeometryGeometric Group TheoryComputer-aided DesignDiscrete Differential GeometryEducationEngineeringNatural SciencesManagementGraph Theory

Publications per year

1969–2011

26

Publications

26

Seifert fibered spaces in 3-manifolds

William Jaco, Peter B. Shalen · Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society · 1979 · 287 citations · Full text

Topological Property, Knot Theory, Topological Invariant

0-Efficient Triangulations of 3-Manifolds

William Jaco, J Rubinstein · Journal of Differential Geometry · 2003 · 155 citations · Full text

0-Efficient Triangulations, Geometry, Natural Sciences +9

An algorithm to decide if a 3-manifold is a Haken manifold

William Jaco, Ulrich Oertel · Topology · 1984 · 147 citations

Haken Manifold, Manifold Learning, Geometry +3

Algorithms for the complete decomposition of a closed $3$-manifold

William Jaco, Jeffrey L. Tollefson · Illinois Journal of Mathematics · 1995 · 125 citations · Full text

Complete Decomposition, Manifold Learning, Manifold Modeling +2

Seifert fibered spaces in irreducible, sufficiently-large 3-manifolds

William Jaco, Peter B. Shalen · Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society · 1976 · 101 citations · Full text

Topological Property, Knot Theory, Sufficiently-large 3-Manifolds

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