Casson's Invariant for Oriented Homology 3-Spheres: An Exposition

Akbulut, Selman, and Akbulat, Selman, and McCarthy, John D

ISBN 10: 0691085633 / ISBN 13: 9780691085630

Editore: Princeton University Press, 1990

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Very good. No dust jacket as issued. has small line on front cover Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 182 p. Mathematical Notes, 36. Audience: General/trade.

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• Titolo: Casson's Invariant for Oriented Homology 3-Spheres: An Exposition
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691085633
• ISBN 13: 9780691085630
• Rilegatura: Trade paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

In the spring of 1985, A. Casson announced an interesting invariant of homology 3-spheres via constructions on representation spaces. This invariant generalizes the Rohlin invariant and gives surprising corollaries in low-dimensional topology. In the fall of that same year, Selman Akbulut and John McCarthy held a seminar on this invariant. These notes grew out of that seminar. The authors have tried to remain close to Casson's original outline and proceed by giving needed details, including an exposition of Newstead's results. They have often chosen classical concrete approaches over general methods. For example, they did not attempt to give gauge theory explanations for the results of Newstead; instead they followed his original techniques.

Originally published in 1990.

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Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 182 pages; Description: xviii, 182 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Three-manifolds (Topology) . Invariants. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. - [Mathematical notes (Princeton University Press) ; 36].