Geometry and Topology | Proceedings of the Special Year held at the University of Maryland, College Park, 1983 - 1984 | ISBN 9783540160533

Geometry and Topology

Proceedings of the Special Year held at the University of Maryland, College Park, 1983 - 1984

herausgegeben von James C. Alexander und John L. Harer
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonJames C. Alexander
Herausgegeben vonJohn L. Harer
Buchcover Geometry and Topology  | EAN 9783540160533 | ISBN 3-540-16053-1 | ISBN 978-3-540-16053-3

Geometry and Topology

Proceedings of the Special Year held at the University of Maryland, College Park, 1983 - 1984

herausgegeben von James C. Alexander und John L. Harer
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonJames C. Alexander
Herausgegeben vonJohn L. Harer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • Lower postnikov terms of generalized CW complexes and semi-simple actions.
  • 3-fold branched coverings and the mapping class group of a surface.
  • Locally flat embeddings of three dimensional manifolds in four dimensional manifolds.
  • Differential characters and geometric invariants.
  • Minimal branched immersions into three-manifolds.
  • Representations of fundamental groups of surfaces.
  • Comparison theorems for volumes in surfaces.
  • The isometry-invariant geodesics problem: Closed and open.
  • Attractors for discrete-time monotone dynamical systems in strongly ordered spaces.
  • Presentation classes, 3-manifolds and free products.
  • Proper actions on homogeneous spaces.
  • Deformation spaces for seifert manifolds.
  • Abelian invariants of satellite knots.
  • An introduction to compactifying spaces of hyperbolic structures by actions on trees.
  • A note on an invariant of fintushel and stern.
  • Handlebodies and 2-complexes.
  • Extrema associated with homotopy classes of maps.
  • Geometries and geometric structures in real dimension 4 and complex dimension 2.