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Casson's Invariant for Oriented Homology Three-Spheres: An Exposition. (MN-36)
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Full Title:
Casson's Invariant for Oriented Homology Three-Spheres: An Exposition. (MN-36)
Contributors:
By (Author) Selman Akbulut
By (author) John D. McCarthy
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
514.3
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
202
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
454g
Description
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 no
