Families of curves on surfaces
β Scribed by Augusto Nobile
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 947 KB
- Volume
- 187
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0025-5874
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It is proved that for each compact (bordered) surface 7 and each integer k there is a constant N with the following property: If 1 is a family of pairwise nonhomotopic closed curves on 7 such that any two curves from 1 intersect in at most k points, then 1 contains at most N curves.
We describe an optimal algorithm to decide if one closed curve on a triangulated 2-manifold can be continuously transformed to another, i.e., if they are homotopic. Suppose C 1 and C 2 are two closed curves on a surface M of genus g. Further, suppose T is a triangulation of M of size n such that C 1