The geometry of the disk complex
The geometry of the disk complex
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DOI:
10.1090/s0894-0347-2012-00742-5
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发表时间:
2010-10
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
H. Masur;S. Schleimer
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作者:
H. Masur;S. Schleimer
We give a distance estimate for the disk complex. We use the distance estimate to prove that the disk complex is Gromov hyperbolic. As another application of our techniques, we find an algorithm which computes the Hempel distance of a Heegaard splitting, up to an error depending only on the genus.