Normal surfaces in topologically finite 3–manifolds
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This paper investigates normal surface theory in topologically finite 3–manifolds with ideal triangulations. Treated are closed and non– compact normal surfaces, the projective solution space and the projective admissible solution space, as well as the leaf spaces of the transversely measured singular codimension–one foliations defined by admissible solutions. AMS Classification 57M25, 57N10
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