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Handlebody decompositions of complex surfaces

About this Title

John Harer, Arnold Kas and Robion Kirby

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1986; Volume 62, Number 350
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2351-4 (print); 978-1-4704-0766-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0350
MathSciNet review: 849942
MSC: Primary 57R65; Secondary 14J25, 32J15

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • Introduction
  • 0. Framed links and resolutions of singularities
  • 1. Algebraic descriptions of elliptic surfaces
  • 2. Handlebody decompositions of elliptic surfaces
  • 3. Handlebody decompositions of surfaces defined using log transforms
  • 4. Drawing the 3-handles for the Dolgachev surface