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1 online resource (xviii, 182 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Mathematical notes ; 36
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Mathematical notes (Princeton University Press) ; 36.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; I: Representation Spaces; II: Heegard Decompositions and Stable Equivalence; III: Representation Spaces Associated to Heegard Decompositions; IV: Casson''s Invariant for Oriented Homology 3-Spheres; V: Casson''s Invariant for Knots in Homology 3-Spheres; VI: The Topology of the Space of Representations |
| Summary |
In the spring of 1985, A. Casson announced an interesting invariant of homology 3-spheres via constructions on representation spaces. This invariant generalizes the Rohlin invariant and gives surprising corollaries in low-dimensional topology. In the fall of that same year, Selman Akbulut and John McCarthy held a seminar on this invariant. These notes grew out of that seminar. The authors have tried to remain close to Casson''s original outline and proceed by giving needed details, including an exposition of Newstead''s results. They have often chosen classical concrete approaches over genera. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Three-manifolds (Topology)
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Three-manifolds (Topology) |
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Invariants.
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Invariants. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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McCarthy, John D., 1955-
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Homology 3-spheres.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Akbulut, Selman, 1949- Casson's invariant for oriented homology 3-spheres. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990 9780691085630 (DLC) 89038532 (OCoLC)20352724 |
| ISBN |
9781400860623 electronic book |
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1400860628 electronic book |
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0691085633 |
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9780691085630 |
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