The topological uniqueness of complete one-ended minimal surfaces and Heegaard surfaces in ℝ³

Frohman, Charles¹ ; Meeks, William, III²

¹ Mathematics Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
² Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003

Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Tome 10 (1997) no. 3, pp. 495-512

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DOI : 10.1090/S0894-0347-97-00215-4

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