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Multibranched Surfaces in 3-Manifolds

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This article is a survey of recent works on embeddings of multibranched surfaces into 3-manifolds.

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Published in Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 498, 2020, pp. 135–156.

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Ozawa, M. Multibranched Surfaces in 3-Manifolds. J Math Sci 255, 193–208 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-021-05362-x

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