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

• Pubblicazione: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1988]; ©1988
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (766 p.)
• Disciplina: 514/.224
• Soggetto topico: Braid theory
• Persona (resp. second.): BirmanJoan S. <1927->; LibgoberA <1949-> (Anatoly)
• 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: Line Arrangements 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Braids
• ISBN: 0-8218-7666-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827451503321
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• Serie: Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society). ; 78 . 0271-4132