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Two-dimensional homotopy and combinatorial group theory /

Basic work on two-dimensional homotopy theory dates back to K. Reidemeister and J.H.C. Whitehead. Much work in this area has been done since then, and this book considers the current state of knowledge in all the aspects of the subject. The editors start with introductory chapters on low-dimensional...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hog-Angeloni, Cynthia, Metzler, W. (Wolfgang), Sieradski, Allan J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Colección:London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 197.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editors' Preface; Addresses of Authors; I Geometric Aspects of Two-Dimensional Complexes; 1 Complexes of Low Dimensions and Group Presentations . . .; 1.1 Inductive construction of CW-complexes; 1.2 Questions of subdivision and triangulation; 1.3 Reading off presentations for TTI of a CW-complex; 1.4 PLCW-complexes; 2 Simple-Homotopy and Low Dimensions; 2.1 A survey on geometric simple-homotopy; 2.2 Some examples; 2.3 3-deformation types and (Q**-transformations; 3 P.L. Embeddings of 2-Complexes into Manifolds; 3.1 3-dimensional thickenings
  • 3.2 4- and 5-dimensional thickenings4 Three Conjectures and Further Problems; 4.1 (Generalized) Andrews-Curtis conjecture; 4.2 Zeeman collapsing conjecture; 4.3 Whitehead asphericity conjecture as a special problem of dimension 2; 4.4 Further open questions; II Algebraic Topology for Two Dimensional Complexes; 1 Techniques in Homotopy; 1.1 Simplicial Techniques; 1.2 Combinatorial Maps; 2 Homotopy Groups for 2-Complexes 62; 2.1 Fundamental sequence for a 2-complex K; 2.2 II(K) and the homotopy type of a 2-complex K; 3 Equivariant World for 2-Complexes; 3.1 Hurewicz Isomorphism Theorems
  • 3.2 Two Dimensional Equivariant World4 Mac Lane-Whitehead Algebraic Types; 4.1 Homology and Cohomology of Groups; 4.2 Maps between 2-complexes; III Homotopy and Homology Classification of 2-Complexes; 1 Bias Invariant & Homology Classification; 1.1 Bias as a homotopy obstruction; 1.2 Bias as the complete homology obstruction; 1.3 Homotopy distinction of twisted presentations; 2 Classifications for Finite Abelian TTI Ill; 2.1 The Browning obstruction group; 2.2 Homotopy classification for finite abelian TTI; 3 Classifications for Non-Finite TTI (with Cynthia Hog-Angeloni); 3.1 Infinite groups
  • Generalized Browning invariant3.2 Results when TTI is a free product of cyclic groups; 3.3 Trees of homotopy types, simple-homotopy types, and 3_deformation types; 3.4 Problems for Chapter III; IV Crossed Modules and n2 Homotopy Modules; 1 Introduction; 2 Crossed and Precrossed Modules; 2.1 Free crossed modules; 2.2 A characterization of free crossed modules; 2.3 Projective crossed modules; 2.4 Two-complexes and projective crossed modules; 2.5 The kernel of a projective crossed module; 3 On the Second Homotopy Module of a 2-Complex; 3.1 Coproducts of crossed modules; 3.2 A special case