@InProceedings{chambers_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2021.23, author = {Chambers, Erin Wolf and Lazarus, Francis and de Mesmay, Arnaud and Parsa, Salman}, title = {{Algorithms for Contractibility of Compressed Curves on 3-Manifold Boundaries}}, booktitle = {37th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2021)}, pages = {23:1--23:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-184-9}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2021}, volume = {189}, editor = {Buchin, Kevin and Colin de Verdi\`{e}re, \'{E}ric}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2021.23}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-138223}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2021.23}, annote = {Keywords: 3-manifolds, surfaces, low-dimensional topology, contractibility, compressed curves} }