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Least area incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds

Michael Freedman, Joel Hass, Peter Scott

Inventiones mathematicae · 1983 · 227 citations · 15 references

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Friedhelm Waldhausen · Annals of Mathematics · 1968 · 861 citations · Full text

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Existence of Incompressible Minimal Surfaces and the Topology of Three Dimensional Manifolds with Non-Negative Scalar Curvature

Shing–Tung Yau · Annals of Mathematics · 1979 · 627 citations

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Eigenfunctions and nodal sets

Shiu‐Yuen Cheng · Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici · 1976 · 432 citations

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Subgroups of Surface Groups are Almost Geometric

Peter Scott · Journal of the London Mathematical Society · 1978 · 419 citations

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Topology of Three Dimensional Manifolds and the Embedding Problems in Minimal Surface Theory

William H. Meeks, Shing–Tung Yau · Annals of Mathematics · 1980 · 230 citations

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