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3-Manifolds
About this Title
John Hempel, Rice University, Houston, TX
Publication: AMS Chelsea Publishing
Publication Year:
1976; Volume 349
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-3695-8 (print); 978-1-4704-3025-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/chel/349
Table of Contents
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Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Chapter 1. Preliminaries
- Chapter 2. Heegaard splittings
- Chapter 3. Connected sums
- Chapter 4. The loop and sphere theorems
- Chapter 5. Free groups
- Chapter 6. Incompressible surfaces
- Chapter 7. Kneser’s conjecture on free products
- Chapter 8. Finitely generated subgroups
- Chapter 9. More on connected sums; Finite and abelian subgroups
- Chapter 10. I-bundles
- Chapter 11. Group extensions and fibrations
- Chapter 12. Seifert fibered spaces
- Chapter 13. Classification of $P^2$-irreducible, sufficiently large 3-manifolds
- Chapter 14. Some approaches to the Poincaré conjecture
- Chapter 15. Open problems