Lectures on the Topology of 3-Manifolds : : An Introduction to the Casson Invariant / / Nikolai Saveliev.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Mathematics - 1990 - 1999
• VerfasserIn: Saveliev, Nikolai,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Textbook
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; Glossary --; Lecture 1. Heegaard splittings --; Lecture 2. Dehn surgery --; Lecture 3. Kirby calculus --; Lecture 4. Even surgeries --; Lecture 5. Review of 4-manifolds --; Lecture 6. Four-manifolds with boundary --; Lecture 7. Invariants of knots and links --; Lecture 8. Fibered knots --; Lecture 9. The Arf-invariant --; Lecture 10. Rohlin’s theorem --; Lecture 11. The Rohlin invariant --; Lecture 12. The Casson invariant --; Lecture 13. The group SU(2) --; Lecture 14. Representation spaces --; Lecture 15. The local properties of representation spaces --; Lecture 16. Casson’s invariant for Heegaard splittings --; Lecture 17. Casson’s invariant for knots --; Lecture 18. An application of the Casson invariant --; Lecture 19. The Casson invariant of Seifert manifolds --; Conclusion --; Exercises --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110806359; 9783110637199; 9783110306569
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110806359
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nikolai Saveliev.