Measuring complexity of curves on surfaces
Abstract
We consider the relations between different measures of complexity for free homotopy classes of curves on a surface , including the minimum number of self-intersections, the minimum length of the words representing them in a geometric presentation of π1(), and the minimum degree of the coverings of to which they lift as embeddings.
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