Knots 90 : : Proceedings of the International Conference on Knot Theory and Related Topics held in Osaka (Japan), August 15–19, 1990 / / ed. by Akio Kawauchi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Mathematics - 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Aitchison, I.R.,; Birman, Joan S.,; Bleiler, Steven A.,; Davidow, A.,; Farber, M.,; Fukuhara, S.,; Gomez-Larranaga, Jose Carlos,; Guadagnini, E.,; Habegger, Nathan,; Harikae, T.,; Heil, Wolfgang,; Hillman, J.A.,; Hodgson, Craig D.,; Hoste, Jim,; Jin, G.T.,; Kamada, S.,; Kauffman, Louis H.,; Kawauchi, Akio,; Kim, B.K.,; Kinoshita, Shin \x27ichi,; Ko, Ki Hyoung,; Ko, Κ. Η.,; Kobayashi, T.,; Kodama, Kouzi,; Kohara, Takashi,; Koschorke, U.,; Kurpita, Bohdan I.,; Lee, H.C.,; Levine, J.P.,; Lickorish, W.B.R.,; Martellini, M.,; Mathieu, Y.,; Matumoto, Takao,; Menasco, William W.,; Meyer, David A.,; Mintchev, M.,; Moriah, Yoav,; Morton, H.R.,; Murakami, Jun,; Murasugi, Kunio,; Nakanishi, Yasutaka,; Nakao, M.,; Potyagailo, L.,; Przytycki, J. H.,; Rubinstein, J.H.,; Sakuma, Makoto,; Smolinsky, Lawrence,; Strickland, P.M.,; Suzuki, Shin \x27ichi,; Teragaito, M.,; Tsau, C.M.,; Uchida, Yoshiaki,; Ue, Masaaki,; Vogel, Pierre,; Yamada, Shûji,; Yoshikawa, Katsuyuki,
• HerausgeberIn: Kawauchi, Akio,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Proceedings in Mathematics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (641 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Table of contents
• Variants on 3-manifold invariants
• Fibered links which are band connected sum of two links
• Geometries on 4-manifolds, Euler characteristic and elementary amenable groups
• Satellites and surgery invariants
• Hermitian forms on periodic modules and even- dimensional links
• Unknotting, knotting by twists on disks and property (P) for knots in S3
• On the Z2 Θ Z2 branched coverings of spatial ^ - graphs
• Geometric link homotopy invariants
• Projective planes in 4-sphere obtained by deform-spinnings
• Universal abelian coverings of spatial theta-curves
• Special hermitian forms for Seifert surfaces of boundary links and algebraic invariants
• Casson's invariant for branched cyclic covers over iterated torus knots
• Symmetry-spun tori in the four-sphere
• From a view of localized link theory
• Adequate links and the Jones polynomial of unlinks
• Chern-Simons theory, link invariants and quasi-Hopf algebras
• A note on incompressible surfaces in solid tori and in lens spaces
• Certain abelian subgroups of two-knot groups
• Universal pretzel links
• Knots, spin networks and 3-manifold invariants
• The framed braid group and representations
• On the decompositions of elliptic surfaces
• Symmetry groups of prime knots up to 10 crossings
• Tangle invariants and centre of the quantum group
• A survey of skein modules of 3-manifolds
• Representations of link groups
• Applications of Morse theory to link theory
• Signature invariants of homology bordism with applications to links
• Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of a fibered knot complement with fiber a punctured torus
• On 3-fold irregular branched coverings of Θ4 curves in a 3-sphere
• Spherical space forms and Dehn surgery
• Some remarks on knots and links in spatial graphs
• A topological invariant of spatial regular graphs
• On local relations to determine the multi-variable Alexander polynomial of colored links
• Almost identical link imitations and the skein polynomial
• 3-manifolds that are unions of three handlebodies of genus at most 1
• On a hierarchal Jones invariant
• Canonical surgery on alternating link diagrams
• State models for link invariants from the classical Lie groups
• Geometric structures and monodromy representations
• The problem of finiteness for Kleinian groups in 3-space
• A calculus on links in the 3-sphere
• List of Contributors
• List of Participants
• Backmatter