
Knots And Applications
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Will be published approx. on 1. March 1995
Book
Hardback
492 pages
978-981-02-2004-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is a collection of research papers devoted to the study of relationships between knot theory and the foundations of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and psychology. Included are reprints of the work of Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson) on the 19th century theory of vortex atoms, reprints of modern papers on knotted flux in physics and in fluid dynamics and knotted wormholes in general relativity. It also includes papers on Witten's approach to knots via quantum field theory and applications of this approach to quantum gravity and the Ising model in three dimensions. Other papers discuss the topology of RNA folding in relation to invariants of graphs and Vassiliev invariants, the entanglement structures of polymers, the synthesis of molecular Mobius strips and knotted molecules. The book begins with an article on the applications of knot theory to the foundations of mathematics and ends with an article on topology and visual perception. This volume will be of immense interest to all workers interested in new possibilities in the uses of knots and knot theory.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
986 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-02-2004-4 (9789810220044)
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Editor
Kansas State Univ, Usa
Georgia Inst Of Technology, Usa
Univ Of Illinois At Chicago, Usa
Univ Autonoma Metropolitana (Uam), Mexico
Univ Of Cambridge, Uk
Politechnico Di Torino, Italy
Univ Of Texas At Austin, Usa
Univ Of Colorado Boulder, Usa
Content
Knot logic, L.H. Kauffman; on vortex atoms; on vortex motion; vortex statics, W. Thomson; connection between spin, statistics, and kinks, D. Finkelstein and J. Rubenstein; flux quantization and particle physics, H. Jehle; knot wormholes in geometrodynamics?, E.W. Mielke; helicity and the Calugareanu invariant, H.K. Moffatt and R.L. Ricca; Witten's invariant of 3-dimensional manifolds - loop expansion and surgery calculus, L. Rozansky; 2+1 dimensional quantum gravity as a Gaussian Fermionic system and the 3D-Ising model, M. Martellini and M. Rasetti; Vassiliev knot invariants and the structure of RNA folding, L.H. Kauffman and Y.B. Magarshak; the entanglement structures of polymers, A. MacArthur; synthesis and cutting "in half" of a molecular mobius strip - applications of low dimensional topology in chemistry, D.W. Walba et al; turning a Penrose triangle inside out, T.M. Cowan.