A characterization of pseudo-Anosov foliations

DOI10.2140/pjm.1987.130.359zbMath0602.57019OpenAlexW2076422355MaRDI QIDQ1081895

Robert C. Penner, Athanase Papadopoulos

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1987.130.359

zbMATH Keywords

measured foliationspseudo-Anosov maptrain tracksclosed oriented smooth surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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