Geometry and topology : proceedings of the special year held at the university of Maryland college park, 1983-1984 / / edited by James C. Alexander, John L. Harer

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany : , : Springer, , [1985]; ©1985
• Edizione: 1st ed. 1985.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VIII, 296 p.)
• Disciplina: 514.34
• Soggetto topico: Topology
• Persona (resp. second.): AlexanderJ <1942-> (James); HarerJ. <1952->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Lower postnikov terms of generalized CW complexes and semi-simple actions -- 3-fold branched coverings and the mapping class group of a surface -- Locally flat embeddings of three dimensional manifolds in four dimensional manifolds -- Differential characters and geometric invariants -- Minimal branched immersions into three-manifolds -- Representations of fundamental groups of surfaces -- Comparison theorems for volumes in surfaces -- The isometry-invariant geodesics problem: Closed and open -- Attractors for discrete-time monotone dynamical systems in strongly ordered spaces -- Presentation classes, 3-manifolds and free products -- Proper actions on homogeneous spaces -- Deformation spaces for seifert manifolds -- Abelian invariants of satellite knots -- An introduction to compactifying spaces of hyperbolic structures by actions on trees -- A note on an invariant of fintushel and stern -- Handlebodies and 2-complexes -- Extrema associated with homotopy classes of maps -- Geometries and geometric structures in real dimension 4 and complex dimension 2.
• Titolo autorizzato: Geometry and topology
• ISBN: 3-540-39738-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996466474803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, . 0075-8434 ; ; 1167