Thurston norm of a pair-of-pants product

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For with a pair of pants and its circle fiber, a horizontal surface in a Seifert fibered space of degree has ; vertical surfaces in a Seifert fibered space have zero cost. Cutting and pasting these representatives, and classifying essential surfaces, proves . The dual Thurston polytope is therefore the segment between the two functionals under the natural pairing.

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