Combinatorial methods in topology and algebraic geometry /

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Other Authors: Harper, John R., 1941- (Editor), Mandelbaum, Richard, 1946- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [1985]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780821876299
0821876295
ISSN:0271-4132 ;
0271-4132
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Plenary lectures
  • List of participants
  • Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory
  • Collapses of K X I and Group Presentations
  • On the Andrews-Curtis-Conjecture and related problems
  • Integral representations of Aut Fn and presentation classes of groups
  • A note on commutators and squares in free products
  • Rigidity of almost crystallographic groups
  • Finite graphs and free groups
  • A topological proof of a theorem of Brunner and Burns about M. Hall groups
  • Knot Theory
  • The Murasugi sum is a natural geometric operation IIThe Arf Invariant of classical knots
  • The unknotting number of a classical knot
  • A general position theorem for surfaces in Euclidean 4-space
  • 3-Manifolds
  • On the equivariant Dehn lemma
  • Virtually Haken manifolds
  • Lectures on 3-fold simple coverings and 3-manifolds
  • The Witt classes of Seifert manifolds
  • Outermost forks and a theorem of Jaco
  • Surfaces in 3-manifolds
  • Homotopy Theory And Infinite Dimensional Topology
  • Taming Hopf invariants
  • Artin's braid groups and classical homotopy theoryMore compacta of infinite cohomological dimension
  • Endomorphisms in the homotopy category
  • Four Manifolds and Algebraic Surfaces
  • On fake [S3xS'#S2 x S2]
  • Manifolds having non-ample Norman bundles in quadrices
  • Lefschetz fibrations of Riemann surfaces and decompositions of complex elliptic surfaces
  • Algebraic surfaces and the arithmetic of braids, II
  • A note on moves and on irregular coverings of S4