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Published October 2008 | public
Journal Article

What is...stable commutator length?

Abstract

Kronecker allegedly once said, "God created the natural numbers; all the rest is the work of man." But to a topologist, the natural numbers are just a tool for classifying orientable surfaces, bycounting the number of handles (or genus).

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© 2008 American Mathematical Society.

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