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Lectures on the Topology of 3-Manifolds : an Introduction to the Casson Invariant

By Nikolai Saveliev

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2012
ISBN
9783110250367, 3110250365
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1315501 bytes)
Edition
2ed.
Pages
220\220
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2013-05-29 16:00:00

Description

This textbook, now in its second revised and extended edition, introduces the topology of 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds. It also considers new developments especially related to the Heegaard Floer and contact homology. The book is accessible to graduate students in mathematics and theoretical physics familiar with some elementary algebraic topology, including the fundamental group, basic homology theory, and Poincaré duality on manifolds. Read more... Preface; Introduction; Glossary; 1 Heegaard splittings; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Existence of Heegaard splittings; 1.3 Stable equivalence of Heegaard splittings; 1.4 The mapping class group; 1.5 Manifolds of Heegaard genus

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