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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788873503321

Autore

Cochran Tim D. <1955->

Titolo

Derivatives of links : Milnor's concordance invariants and Massey's products / / Tim D. Cochran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1990

©1990

ISBN

1-4704-0850-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (89 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; Volume 84, Number 427

Disciplina

510 s

Soggetti

Link theory

Massey products

Cobordism theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""0. Introduction and summary of major results""; ""1. Higher-order linking numbers""; ""2. Derived links, Derived linkings, and surface systems""; ""3. Derived links and the lower central series""; ""4. Computing G/G[sub(n)]: The Geometric Rewrite""; ""5. Calculating Minor's Î?-invariants using the Geometric Rewrite""; ""6. Formal Massey products and Surface systems""; ""7. Antiderivatives and the Realization Theorem""; ""8. The Effect of Bing-Doubling and Band-summing on the Î?-invariants""; ""9. Relations to Cobordism and Orr's invariants""

""10. Cobordism Classification and Realization""""11. Questions and Problems""; ""Appendix A: Finding Seifert surfaces for links""; ""Appendix B: Table of the invariant n-linkings and their corresponding Î?-invariants""; ""References""