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A shorter note on shorter pants

Geometric Topology 2024-03-14 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

This note is about variations on a theorem of Bers about short pants decompositions of surfaces. It contains a version for surfaces with boundary but also a slight improvement on the best known bound for closed surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.2304.06973,
  title  = {A shorter note on shorter pants},
  author = {Hugo Parlier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06973},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures

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