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High-Dimensional Knot Theory: Algebraic Surgery in Codimension 2

High-Dimensional Knot Theory: Algebraic Surgery in Codimension 2

Winkelnkemper, E.
Ranicki, Andrew

Hardcover

Series: Springer Monographs in Mathematics

General Mathematics

ISBN10: 3540633898
ISBN13: 9783540633891
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 6 1998
Pages: 646
Weight: 2.20
Height: 1.58 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.52
Language: English
High-dimensional knot theory is the study of the embeddings of n-dimensional manifolds in (n]2)-dimensional manifolds, generalizing the traditional study of knots in the case n=1. The main theme is the application of the author's algebraic theory of surgery to provide a unified treatment of the invariants of codimension 2 embeddings, generalizing the Alexander polynomials and Seifert forms of classical knot theory. Many results in the research literature are thus brought into a single framework, and new results are obtained. The treatment is particularly effective in dealing with open books, which are manifolds with codimension 2 submanifolds such that the complement fibres over a circle. The book concludes with an appendix by E. Winkelnkemper on the history of open books.

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