The Algebraic Characterization of Geometric 4-manifoldsThe Algebraic Characterization of Geometric 4-manifolds
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eBook, 1994
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Current format, eBook, 1994, , All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsThis book describes work on the characterization of closed 4-manifolds in terms of familiar invariants such as Euler characteristic, fundamental group, and Stiefel-Whitney classes. Using techniques from homological group theory, the theory of 3-manifolds and topological surgery, infrasolvmanifolds are characterized up to homeomorphism, and surface bundles are characterized up to simple homotopy equivalence. Non-orientable cases are also considered wherever possible, and in the final chapter the results obtained earlier are applied to 2-knots and complex analytic surfaces.
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in low-dimensional topology.
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in low-dimensional topology.
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