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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480882803321

Titolo

Braids : proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Artin's Braid Group, held July 13-16, 1986 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, California / / Joan S. Birman, Anatoly Libgober, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1988]

©1988

ISBN

0-8218-7666-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (766 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; volume 78

Disciplina

514/.224

Soggetti

Braid theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Artin's Braid Group ... held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, California on July 13-26, 1986, with support from the National Science Foundation"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Organizing Committee""; ""List of Participants""; ""Introduction""; ""A construction of integrable differential system associated with braid groups""; ""Mapping class groups of surfaces""; ""Automorphic sets and braids and singularities""; ""The operator algebras of the two dimensional Ising model""; ""Artin's braid groups, classical homotopy theory, and sundry other curiosities""; ""Classification of solvorbifolds in dimension three - I""; ""Pure braid groups and products of free groups""; ""Polynomial covering maps""

""Arithmetic analogues of braid groups and Galois representations""""Application of braids to fixed points of surface maps""; ""Statistical mechanics and the Jones polynomial""; ""Hurwitz action and finite quotients of braid groups""; ""Heights of simple loops and pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms""; ""Linear representations of braid groups and classical Yang-Baxter equations""; ""A survey of Heeke algebras and the Artin braid groups""; ""On divisibility properties of braids associated with algebraic curves""; ""The panorama of polynomials for knots, links and skeins""



""The structure of deleted symmetric products""""Braid group technique in complex geometry, I: Linearrangements in Cp2""; ""Problems""; ""Polynomials from braids""; ""The Jones polynomial of satellite links about mutants""; ""On the deformation of certain type of algebraic varieties""; ""Braids and discriminants""; ""tk moves on links""; ""Mutually braided open books and new invariants of fibered links""; ""Generalized braid groups and self-energy Feynman integrals""; ""Markov classes in certain finite symplectic representations of braid groups""; ""The braid index of an algebraic link""

""Markov algebras""