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Geometric Topology

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Cameron Gordon, Yoav Moriah and Bronislaw Wajnryb, Editors

Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year: 1994; Volume 164
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5182-1 (print); 978-0-8218-7755-5 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/164
MathSciNet review: 1282749

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Articles

• Andrew J. Duncan and James Howie – The $3$-torus is Kervaire [MR 1282750]
• M. Farber and J. Levine – A topological interpretation of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer invariant [MR 1282751]
• Benjamin Fine and Gerhard Rosenberger – On groups of special NEC type. A Freiheitssatz and related results for a class of multi-relator groups [MR 1282752]
• David Gillman, Sergei Matveev and Dale Rolfsen – Collapsing and reconstruction of manifolds [MR 1282753]
• Joel Hass – Metrics on manifolds with convex or concave boundary [MR 1282754]
• Kerry N. Jones – Geometric structures on branched covers over universal links [MR 1282755]
• Uwe Kaiser – Link homotopy and skein modules of $3$-manifolds [MR 1282756]
• Ulrich Koschorke – Bordism of link maps and self-intersections [MR 1282757]
• A. Leibman and D. Markushevich – The monodromy of the Brieskorn bundle [MR 1282758]
• G. Masbaum and P. Vogel – Verlinde formulae for surfaces with spin structure [MR 1282759]
• Katura Miyazaki and Akira Yasuhara – Knots that cannot be obtained from a trivial knot by twisting [MR 1282760]
• B. Moishezon – The arithmetic of braids and a statement of Chisini [MR 1282761]
• Kanji Morimoto – On tunnel number and connected sum of knots and links [MR 1282762]
• Ramin Naimi – Essential laminations in $3$-manifolds obtained by surgery on $2$-bridge knots [MR 1282763]
• Frédéric Paulin – A dynamical system approach to free actions on $\textbf {R}$-trees: a survey with complements [MR 1282764]
• Sergei Matveev and Michael Polyak – On a tangle presentation of the mapping class groups of surfaces [MR 1282765]
• Martin Scharlemann and Abigail Thompson – Thin position for $3$-manifolds [MR 1282766]
• Kouki Taniyama – On embeddings of a graph into $\textbf {R}^3$ [MR 1282767]