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Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference
March 15-17, 2001
Centro de Convenciones
Morelia City, Michoacán, Mexico

Organizers
Alejandro Illanes, Sergio Macías, Jesus Muciño, María Luisa Pérez

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Compressing totally geodesic surfaces
by
Christopher J. Leininger
University of Texas at Austin

In this paper we prove that one can find surgeries arbitrarily close to infinity in the Dehn surgery space of the figure eight knot complement for which some immersed totally geodesic surface compresses.

Paper reference: arXiv:math.GT/0011113

Date received: January 14, 2001

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