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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788782803321
• 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, ; 35 , 0271-4132
• Disciplina: 514/.223
• Soggetti: Four-manifolds (Topology)
• 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 -- An I-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.