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Original Article

The Minimum Dilatation of Pseudo-Anosov 5-Braids

Ji-Young Ham Department of Mathematics, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Won Taek Song School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, 119 Munjiro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-732, Korea
Pages 167-179 | Published online: 30 Jan 2011

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