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Record Nr.

UNISA996466618803316

Titolo

Topology of low-dimensional manifolds : proceedings of the second Sussex conference 1977 / / edited by Roger Fenn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Heidelberg : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1979]

©1979

ISBN

3-540-35186-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 1979.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 156 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics ; ; 722

Disciplina

514.224

Soggetti

Knot theory

Link theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

A representation theorem for fibered knots and their monodromy maps -- Homogeneity of S2 × T2 -- A link calculus for 4-manifolds -- Nice spines of 3-manifolds -- Introducting doodles -- Generators for the mapping class group -- On the mapping class group of simple 3-manifolds -- Shake — Slice knots -- Signatures of iterated torus knots -- Some homology 3-spheres which bound acyclic 4-manifolds -- A criterion for an embedded surface in ?3 to be unknotted -- An elliptical path from parabolic representations to hyperbolic structures -- Presentations and the trivial group -- On the genera of knots.