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Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 41, No. 9, pp. 1234–1239, September, 1989.
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Matveev, S.V. Additivity of complexity and Haken's method in the topology of three-dimensional manifolds. Ukr Math J 41, 1063–1068 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01056281
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