Lectures on the Topology of 3-Manifolds : : An Introduction to the Casson Invariant / / Nikolai Saveliev.
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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