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STICK NUMBER OF THETA-CURVES

  • Huh, Young-Sik (Department of Mathematics, School of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University) ;
  • Oh, Seung-Sang (Department of Mathematics, Korea University)
  • 투고 : 2008.03.02
  • 심사 : 2009.03.04
  • 발행 : 2009.03.25

초록

In this paper we establish strict lower bounds on number of sticks necessary to construct stick presentations of nontrivial or almost trivial ${\mu}$-curves.

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