Plane curves associated to character varieties of 3-manifolds

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

Introduction to Algebraic Geometry.

Alice T. Schafer, Serge Lang · American Mathematical Monthly · 1960 · 522 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Algebra +10

Bounded, separating, incompressible surfaces in knot manifolds

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

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Fluid Dynamics +8