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This chapter contains one of the main results of the manuscript, namely a calculation of the Euler characteristic of the guts of M A in Theorem 5.14. The calculation will be in terms of the number of essential product disks (EPDs) for M A which are complex, as in Definition 5.2, below.
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Futer, D., Kalfagianni, E., Purcell, J. (2013). Guts and Fibers. In: Guts of Surfaces and the Colored Jones Polynomial. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33302-6_5
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