Cauchy Inequality and the Space of Measured Laminations
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We establish a Cauchy type inequality for the geometric intersection number between two 1-dimensional submanifolds in a surface. Some of the basic results in Thurston's theory of measured laminations on surfaces are derived from the Cauchy inequality.
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@article{arxiv.math/0006007,
title = {Cauchy Inequality and the Space of Measured Laminations},
author = {Feng Luo and Richard Stong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0006007},
year = {2007}
}
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15 pages, 10 figures