Geometry and Topology
Proceedings of the Special Year held at the University of Maryland, College Park, 1983 - 1984
Published on 1. December 1985
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 296 pages
978-3-540-16053-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Series
Edition
1985 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VIII, 296 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-16053-3 (9783540160533)
DOI
10.1007/BFb0075212
Schweitzer Classification
Content
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.