Face-width of embedded graphs

Bojan Mohar

Mathematica Slovaca (1997)

  • Volume: 47, Issue: 1, page 35-63
  • ISSN: 0139-9918

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Mohar, Bojan. "Face-width of embedded graphs." Mathematica Slovaca 47.1 (1997): 35-63. <http://eudml.org/doc/32433>.

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