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Geometric topology, Part 1: 1993 Georgia international topology conference
About this Title
William H Kazez, Editor
Publication: AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics
Publication Year:
1997; Volume 2.1
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0654-8 (print); 978-1-4704-3792-3 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/amsip/002.1
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Polyhedral minimal surfaces, Heegaard splittings, and decision problems for 3-dimensional manifolds
- Surgery numbers of 3-manifolds: A hyperbolic example
- Non-hyperbolic manifolds obtained by Dehn surgery on hyperbolic knots
- Cyclic surgery and boundary slopes
- Relative Euler number and finite covers of graph manifolds
- Geometric invariants for 3-manifolds
- Link homotopy in simply connected 3-manifolds
- Homotopy, isotopy, and genuine laminations of 3-manifolds
- Non-associative tangles
- Power series expansions and invariants of links
- Introduction to spin TQFT
- Refined state-sum invariants of 3- and 4-manifolds
- A family of Möbius invariant 2-knot energies
- Invariants of fibred knots from moduli
- Symplectic forms on moduli spaces of flat connectionso n 2-manifolds
- Automorphisms of the $E_8$ four-manifold
- On the star-construction for topological 4-manifolds
- The problem of Lagrangian knots in four-manifolds
- Energy and capacities in symplectic topology
- Piecewise linear manifolds and Cerf theory
- Local homotopy properties of topological embeddings in codimension two
- $SL(n,{\bf Z})$ cannot act on small tori
- Morse homotopy and its quantization
- CAT(0) reflection manifolds
- On oriented bundle theories and applications
- On minimal coverings in the sense of Lusternik-Schnirelmann for spaces and manifolds
- The centers of fibered two-knot groups
- Equivariant periodicity in surgery for actions of some nonabelian groups
- Microsurgery on stratified spaces
- Large scale homology theories and geometry
- Möbius energies for knots and links, surfaces, and submanifolds