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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480009703321

Titolo

Four-manifold theory / / Cameron Gordon and Robion Kirby, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1984]

©1984

ISBN

0-8218-7620-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (538 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics ; ; volume 35

Disciplina

514/.223

Soggetti

Four-manifolds (Topology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Four-Manifold Theory, held at Durham, New Hampshire, July 4-10, 1982"--Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Fibered Knots and Involutions on Homotopy Spheres""; ""A Fake 4-Manifold""; ""Approximating Cell-Like Maps of S4 by Homeomorphisms""; ""Linking Numbers in Branched Covers""; ""Atomic Surgery Problems""; ""Smooth 4-Manifolds with Definite Intersection Form""; ""The Solution of the 4-Dimensional Annulus Conjecture""; ""A Î?-Invariant One Homology 3-Sphere that Bounds an Orientable Rational Ball""; ""Another Construction of an Exotic S1 X S3 # S2 X S2""; ""On Freedman's Reimbedding Theorems""

""The Homology of the Mapping Class Group and its Connection to Surface Bundles over Surfaces""""Rochlin Invariant and α-Invariant""; ""Cobordism of Satellite Knots""; ""Complex Structures on 4-Manifolds""; ""Good Torus Fibrations""; ""4-Dimensional Oriented Bordism""; ""A New Proof of the Homology Torus and Annulus Theorem""; ""Fibered Knots fn S4-Twisting, Spinning, Rolling, Surgery, and Branching""; ""The Embedding Theorem for Towers""; ""Smooth Structures on 4-Manifolds""; ""Concordance of Links in S4""; ""Constructions of Quasipositfve Knots and Links, II""

""An Introduction to Self-Dual Connections""""4-Manifold Problems""