# Windows, cores and skinning maps

@article{Brock2020WindowsCA,
title={Windows, cores and skinning maps},
author={Jeffrey F. Brock and Ken Bromberg and Richard D. Canary and Yair N. Minsky},
journal={Annales scientifiques de l'{\'E}cole normale sup{\'e}rieure},
year={2020}
}
• Published 21 January 2016
• Mathematics
• Annales scientifiques de l'École normale supérieure
We give a generalization of Thurston's Bounded Image Theorem for skinning maps, which applies to pared 3-manifolds with incompressible boundary that are not necessarily acylindrical. Along the way we study properties of divergent sequences in the deformation space of such a manifold, establishing the existence of compact cores satisfying a certain notion of uniform geometry.
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