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Grid Homology for Knots and Links

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Peter S. Ozsváth, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, András I. Stipsicz, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary and Zoltán Szabó, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Publication: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs
Publication Year: 2015; Volume 208
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-1737-6 (print); 978-1-4704-2739-9 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/surv/208
MathSciNet review: MR3381987
MSC: Primary 57M27; Secondary 53D10, 57M25, 57R17, 57R58

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