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Barriers to Topologically Minimal Surfaces

In earlier work we introduced topologically minimal surfaces as the analogue of geometrically minimal surfaces. Here we strengthen the analogy by showing that complicated amalgamations act as barriers to low genus, topologically minimal surfaces.

D. Bachman

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