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Geometry and Topology of Manifolds (Fields Institute Communications)

Book information

Publisher
American Mathematical Society,
Year
2005
ISBN
0821837249, 9780821837245
LCC
QA611.A1 .G47 2005
Open Library ID
OL3425076M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3384693 bytes)
Series
Fields Institute Communications
Pages
357\357
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

This book contains expository papers that give an up-to-date account of recent developments and open problems in the geometry and topology of manifolds, along with several research articles that present new results appearing in published form for the first time. The unifying theme is the problem of understanding manifolds in low dimensions, notably in dimensions three and four, and the techniques include algebraic topology, surgery theory, Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten gauge theory, Heegaard Floer homology, contact and symplectic geometry, and Gromov-Witten invariants. The articles collected for this volume were contributed by participants of the Conference 'Geometry and Topology of Manifolds' held at McMaster University on May 14-18, 2004 and are representative of the many excellent talks delivered at the conference.

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