Lectures on the Topology of 3-Manifolds

Lectures on the Topology of 3-Manifolds

An Introduction to the Casson Invariant

By Nikolai Saveliev
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Publication Date: 8th September 1999

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  • Price: $154.00
  • Publisher: De Gruyter
  • Imprint: De Gruyter
  • Series: De Gruyter Textbook
  • Publication Date: 8th September 1999
  • ISBN: 9783110162721
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    MATHEMATICS / General
    MATHEMATICS / Geometry / General
Table of Contents
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Glossary -- Lecture 1. Heegaard splittings -- Lecture 2. Dehn surgery -- Lecture 3. Kirby calculus -- Lecture 4. Even surgeries -- Lecture 5. Review of 4-manifolds -- Lecture 6. Four-manifolds with boundary -- Lecture 7. Invariants of knots and links -- Lecture 8. Fibered knots -- Lecture 9. The Arf-invariant -- Lecture 10. Rohlin’s theorem -- Lecture 11. The Rohlin invariant -- Lecture 12. The Casson invariant -- Lecture 13. The group SU(2) -- Lecture 14. Representation spaces -- Lecture 15. The local properties of representation spaces -- Lecture 16. Casson’s invariant for Heegaard splittings -- Lecture 17. Casson’s invariant for knots -- Lecture 18. An application of the Casson invariant -- Lecture 19. The Casson invariant of Seifert manifolds -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Bibliography -- Index
No detailed description available for "Lectures on the Topology of 3-Manifolds".
  • Price: $154.00
  • Publisher: De Gruyter
  • Imprint: De Gruyter
  • Series: De Gruyter Textbook
  • Publication Date: 8th September 1999
  • ISBN: 9783110162721
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    MATHEMATICS / General
    MATHEMATICS / Geometry / General
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Glossary -- Lecture 1. Heegaard splittings -- Lecture 2. Dehn surgery -- Lecture 3. Kirby calculus -- Lecture 4. Even surgeries -- Lecture 5. Review of 4-manifolds -- Lecture 6. Four-manifolds with boundary -- Lecture 7. Invariants of knots and links -- Lecture 8. Fibered knots -- Lecture 9. The Arf-invariant -- Lecture 10. Rohlin’s theorem -- Lecture 11. The Rohlin invariant -- Lecture 12. The Casson invariant -- Lecture 13. The group SU(2) -- Lecture 14. Representation spaces -- Lecture 15. The local properties of representation spaces -- Lecture 16. Casson’s invariant for Heegaard splittings -- Lecture 17. Casson’s invariant for knots -- Lecture 18. An application of the Casson invariant -- Lecture 19. The Casson invariant of Seifert manifolds -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Bibliography -- Index