Two-dimensional homotopy and combinatorial group theory /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Description:xi, 412 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:London Mathematical Society lecture note series 197
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1616835
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Other authors / contributors:Hog-Angeloni, Cynthia
Metzler, W. (Wolfgang)
Sieradski, Allan J.
ISBN:0521447003 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-407) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Geometric aspects of two-dimensional complexes
  • 2. Algebraic topology for two-dimensional complexes
  • 3. Homotopy and homology classification of 2-complexes
  • 4. Crossed modules and P2 homotopy modules
  • 5. Calculating generators of P2 W. Bogley and
  • 6. Applications of diagrams to decision processes
  • 7. Fox ideals, N-torsion and applications to groups and 3-manifolds
  • 8. (Singular) 3-manifolds
  • 9. Cancellation results for 2-complexes and 4-manifolds and some applications
  • 10. J. H. C. Whitehead's asphericity question
  • 11. Zeeman's collapsing conjecture
  • 12. The Andrews-Curtis conjecture and its generalizations