Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Geometric Topology; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; PART I: LOW DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS; CHAPTER 1. A DECOMPOSITION OF WITHA NULL SEQUENCE OF CELLULAR ARCS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. THE TWO DISK PROPERTY; III. PRESERVING THE TWO DISK PROPERTY; IV. THE MAIN EXAMPLE; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR 3-MANIFOLDS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. DEFINITIONS, NOTATION, CONVENTIONS; III. REPRESENTATIONS OF 3-MANIFOLDS BY SPECIAL FRAMED LINKS; IV. TIlE HEEGMRD DIAGRAMS AND SEWINGS ASSOCIATED TO CLASS 1, 2, 3 AND 4 FRAMED LINKS
  • v. QUESTIONS AND SPECULATIONSREFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. SHRINKING COUNTABLE DECOMPOSITIONS OF E3 INTO POINTS AND TAME CELLS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. PUSHING A 1-COMPLEX OFF G*; III. PUSHING 2-CELLS OFF ELEMENTS OF G; IV. DECOMPOSITIONS OF E3 INTO POINTS' AND TAME 3-CELLS; V. COUNTABLE DECOMPOSITIONS OF E3 INTO POINTS AND TAME CELLS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. LOCAL SPANNING MISSING LOOPS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. A PROBLEM OF RUSHING; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6. AN ADDITIVE INDEX THEOREM FOR CERTAINWILDLY EMBEDDED ARCS AND CURVES; REFERENCE; CHAPTER 7. SEIFERT FIBERED SPACES IN 3-MANIFOLDS
  • CHAPTER 8. ON EXOTIC HOMOTOPY EQUIVALENCES OF 3-MANIFOLDSI. INTRODUCTION; II. EXOTIC HOMOTOPY EQUIVALENCES OF BALLS; III. INDICATION OF THE PROOF OF THE MAIN THEOREM; IV. APPENDIX; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9. EIGHT FACES OF THE POINCARE HOMOLOGY 3-SPHERE; I. EIGHT DESCRIPTIONS; II. EQUIVALENCE OF THE DESCRIPTIONS; III. OTHER POSSIBILITIES; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10. DECOMPOSING ANALYTIC SURFACES; I. DECOMPOSING 4-MANIFOLDS; II. ANALYTIC SURFACES; III. THE HYPERSURFACES OF CP3; IV. FAMILIES OF ANALYTIC MANIFOLDS AND THEIR DEGENERATIONS; V. IRRATIONAL CONNECTED SUMS; VI. ELLIPTIC SURFACES
  • CHAPTER 13. DECOMPOSITIONS OF E3 INTO CELLULAR SETSREFERENCES; PART II: TOPOLOGY OF MANIFOLDS; CHAPTER 14. THE STRUCTURE OF GENERALIZED MANIFOLDS HAVING NONMANIFOLD SET OF TRIVIAL DIMENSION; I. INTRODUCTION; II. PREREQUISITES ON GENERALIZED MANIFOLDS; Ill. DETECTING CRUMPLED n-CELLS; IV REPLACING CRUMPLED CELLS BY REAL CELLS; V. IMPROVING GENERALIZED MANIFOLDS; VI. RECOGNIZING MANIFOLDS; VII. SUMMARY; VIII. OPEN QUESTIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 15. EMBEDDINGS AND IMMERSIONS OF FOUR DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS IN R6; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 16. GENERAL POSITION MAPS FOR. TOPOLOGICAL MANIFOLDS