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Algebraic Invariants of Links.

This book is intended as a reference on links and on the invariants derived via algebraic topology from covering spaces of link exteriors. It emphasizes features of the multicomponent case not normally considered by knot theorists, such as longitudes, the homological complexity of many-variable Laur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hillman, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2002.
Colección:K & E series on knots and everything.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface ; Part 1. Abelian Covers ; Chapter 1. Links ; 1.1. Basic notions ; 1.2. The link group ; 1.3. Homology boundary links ; 1.4. Z/2Z-boundary links ; 1.5. Isotopy concordance and /-equivalence ; 1.6. Link homotopy and surgery ; 1.7. Ribbon links.
  • 1.8. Link-symmetric groups 1.9. Link composition ; Chapter 2. Homology and Duality in Covers ; 2.1. Homology and cohomology with local coefficients ; 2.2. Covers of link exteriors ; 2.3. Poincare duality and the Blanchfield pairings ; 2.4. The total linking number cover.
  • 2.5. The maximal abelian cover 2.6. Concordance ; 2.7. Additivity ; 2.8. The Seifert approach for boundary 1-links ; 2.9. Signatures ; Chapter 3. Determinantal Invariants ; 3.1. Elementary ideals ; 3.2. The Elementary Divisor Theorem ; 3.3. Extensions.
  • 3.4. Reidemeister-Franz torsion 3.5. Steinitz-Fox-Smythe invariants ; 3.6. 1- and 2-dimensional rings ; 3.7. Bilinear pairings ; Chapter 4. The Maximal Abelian Cover ; 4.1. Metabelian groups and the Crowell sequence ; 4.2. Free metabelian groups ; 4.3. Link module sequences.
  • 4.4. Localization of link module sequences 4.5. Chen groups ; 4.6. Applications to links ; 4.7. Chen groups nullity and longitudes ; 4.8. I-equivalence ; 4.9. The sign-determined Alexander polynomial ; 4.10. Higher dimensional links ; Chapter 5. Sublinks and Other Abelian Covers.