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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480525703321

Autore

Gabai David <1954->

Titolo

Genera of the arborescent links, A norm for the homology of 3-manifolds / / David Gabai, William P. Thurston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island, United States : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1986

©1986

ISBN

1-4704-0752-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; Volume 59, Number 339

Disciplina

514/.224

Soggetti

Link theory

Knot theory

Three-manifolds (Topology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 1986, Volume 59, Number 339 (first of 3 numbers)"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Genera of the Arborescent Links""; ""Â0 Introduction""; ""Â1 Definitions and Facts""; ""Â2 Every Oriented Arborescent Link can be Represented by a Tree""; ""Â3 Pretzel Links""; ""Â4 Taut Foliations and Flat Minimal Surfaces""; ""Â5 Kinoshita Terasaka Tangles""; ""Â6 A Surfaces""; ""Â7 The Construction""; ""Appendix A: The Practical Way to Operate""; ""Appendix B: A Dictionary of Local Disc Decompositions""; ""Bibliography""; ""A Norm for the Homology of 3â€?Manifolds""; ""Figure â?©""; ""Â0 Introduction""; ""Â1 Definition of x and a Proof of Theorem â?©""

""Â2 The Unit Ball""""Â3 Fibrations and Foliations""; ""Â4 Some Families of Examples""; ""Â5 The Unknown""; ""References""