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1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; volume 44 |
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Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; volume 44.
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| Contents |
Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Plenary lectures -- List of participants -- Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory -- Collapses of K X I and Group Presentations -- On the Andrews-Curtis-Conjecture and related problems -- Integral representations of Aut Fn and presentation classes of groups -- A note on commutators and squares in free products -- Rigidity of almost crystallographic groups -- Finite graphs and free groups -- A topological proof of a theorem of Brunner and Burns about M. Hall groups -- Knot Theory |
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The Murasugi sum is a natural geometric operation IIThe Arf Invariant of classical knots -- The unknotting number of a classical knot -- A general position theorem for surfaces in Euclidean 4-space -- 3-Manifolds -- On the equivariant Dehn lemma -- Virtually Haken manifolds -- Lectures on 3-fold simple coverings and 3-manifolds -- The Witt classes of Seifert manifolds -- Outermost forks and a theorem of Jaco -- Surfaces in 3-manifolds -- Homotopy Theory And Infinite Dimensional Topology -- Taming Hopf invariants |
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Artin's braid groups and classical homotopy theoryMore compacta of infinite cohomological dimension -- Endomorphisms in the homotopy category -- Four Manifolds and Algebraic Surfaces -- On fake [S3xS'#S2 x S2] -- Manifolds having non-ample Norman bundles in quadrices -- Lefschetz fibrations of Riemann surfaces and decompositions of complex elliptic surfaces -- Algebraic surfaces and the arithmetic of braids, II -- A note on moves and on irregular coverings of S4 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Combinatorial topology.
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Geometry, Algebraic.
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Combinatorial analysis.
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Combinatorial analysis
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Combinatorial topology
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Geometry, Algebraic
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harper, John R., 1941- editor.
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Mandelbaum, Richard, 1946- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780821876299 |
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0821876295 |
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