| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 353 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Series on knots and everything ; v. 52 |
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K & E series on knots and everything ; v. 52.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Abelian covers -- pt. 2. Applications : special cases and symmetries -- pt. 3. Free covers, nilpotent quotients and completion |
| Summary |
This book serves as a reference on links and on the invariants derived via algebraic topology from covering spaces of link exteriors. It emphasizes the features of the multicomponent case not normally considered by knot-theorists, such as longitudes, the homological complexity of many-variable Laurent polynomial rings, the fact that links are not usually boundary links, free coverings of homology boundary links, the lower central series as a source of invariants, nilpotent completion and algebraic closure of the link group, and disc links. Invariants of the types considered here play an essent |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Link theory.
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Invariants.
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Abelian groups.
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MATHEMATICS -- Topology.
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Abelian groups
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Invariants
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Link theory
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012012248 |
| ISBN |
9789814407397 |
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9814407399 |
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