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Cauchy Inequality and the Space of Measured Laminations

Feng Luo, Richard Stong

math.GTarXiv:math/0006007

Abstract

We establish a Cauchy type inequality for the geometric intersection number between two 1-dimensional submanifolds in a surface. Some of the basic results in Thurston's theory of measured laminations on surfaces are derived from the Cauchy inequality.

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