Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society

On the geometry and dynamics of diffeomorphisms of surfaces

William P. Thurston

Source: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) Volume 19, Number 2 (1988), 417-431.

Primary Subjects: 58F15

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