Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups. (AM-82), Volume 82 / / Joan S. Birman.
The central theme of this study is Artin's braid group and the many ways that the notion of a braid has proved to be important in low-dimensional topology.In Chapter 1 the author is concerned with the concept of a braid as a group of motions of points in a manifold. She studies structural and a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©1975 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Annals of Mathematics Studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1. BRAID GROUPS
- CHAPTER 2. BRAIDS AND LINKS
- CHAPTER 3. MAGNUS REPRESENTATIONS
- CHAPTER 4. MAPPING CLASS GROUPS
- CHAPTER 5. PLATS AND LINKS
- APPENDIX: RESEARCH PROBLEMS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Backmatter