Representation theory and the A-polynomial of a knot

Dehn Surgery on Knots

Marc Culler, C. McA. Gordon, John Luecke et al. · Annals of Mathematics · 1987 · 675 citations

Medicine, Surgery, Reconstructive Surgery +2

Varieties of Group Representations and Splittings of 3-Manifolds

Marc Culler, Peter B. Shalen · Annals of Mathematics · 1983 · 659 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Representation Theory +9

Plane curves associated to character varieties of 3-manifolds

D. Cooper, Marc Culler, Henri Gillet et al. · Inventiones mathematicae · 1994 · 356 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Geometry +7

Incompressible surfaces in 2-bridge knot complements

Allen Hatcher, William P. Thurston · Inventiones mathematicae · 1985 · 339 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Fluid Dynamics +7

Bounded, separating, incompressible surfaces in knot manifolds

Marc Culler, Peter B. Shalen · Inventiones mathematicae · 1984 · 95 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Fluid Dynamics +8