High-Dimensional Knot Theory: Algebraic Surgery in Codimension 2 - Couverture rigide

Ranicki, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3540633898 ISBN 13 : 9783540633891

Editeur : Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1998

Synopsis

High-dimensional knot theory is the study of the embeddings of n-dimensional manifolds in (n+2)-dimensional manifolds, generalizing the traditional study of knots in the case n=1. The main theme is the application of the author's algebraic theory of surgery to provide a unified treatment of the invariants of codimension 2 embeddings, generalizing the Alexander polynomials and Seifert forms of classical knot theory. Many results in the research literature are thus brought into a single framework, and new results are obtained. The treatment is particularly effective in dealing with open books, which are manifolds with codimension 2 submanifolds such that the complement fibres over a circle. The book concludes with an appendix by E. Winkelnkemper on the history of open books.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Bringing together many results previously scattered throughout the research literature into a single framework, this work concentrates on the application of the author's algebraic theory of surgery to provide a unified treatment of the invariants of codimension 2 embeddings, generalizing the Alexander polynomials and Seifert forms of classical knot theory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3540633898
• ISBN 13: 9783540633891
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 682
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