Flats in 3-manifolds
Annales de la Faculté des sciences de Toulouse : Mathématiques, Série 6, Tome 14 (2005) no. 3, pp. 459-499. 
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Kapovich, Michael. Flats in $3$-manifolds. Annales de la Faculté des sciences de Toulouse : Mathématiques, Série 6, Tome 14 (2005) no. 3, pp. 459-499. http://www.numdam.org/item/AFST_2005_6_14_3_459_0/

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