Topology and combinatorics of 3-manifolds /
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| Author / Creator: | Johannson, Klaus, 1948- |
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1995. |
| Description: | xviii, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lecture notes in mathematics ; 1599 Lecture notes in mathematics (Springer-Verlag) ; 1599. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1755191 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Standard Graphs and Meridian-Systems
- 2. The Disc-Complex
- 3. Homeomorphisms
- 4. Pseudo-Anosov Homeomorphisms
- 5. Branching Complexes
- 6. Heegaard-Diagrams
- 7. Surfaces
- 8. Homeomorphisms
- 9. Duality
- 10. Presentations for Surfaces
- 11. The Seifert Characteristic
- 12. Algorithms for Surfaces
- 13. The Haken Spectrum
- 14. Good Pencils
- 15. The Handle-Addition Lemma (Absolute Form)
- 16. The Handle-Addition Lemma (Relative Form)
- 17. Homotopy and Isotopy
- 18. The Mapping Class Group
- 19. Incompressibility
- 20. The Compression-Algorithm
- 21. The Haken Spectrum
- 22. An Example
- 23. The Handle-Addition Lemma (General Case)
- 24. The Unknotting Theorem
- 25. Distances for Heegaard Graphs
- 26. Constructing Heegaard Graphs
- 27. Haken Complexes and Heegaard Complexes
- 28. Short Companions for Haken Graphs
- 29. Invariant Regions for Long Arc-Sequences
- 30. The Universal Limit for Induced Haken Graphs
- 31. Finiteness for Heegaard Graphs
- 32. Rigidity for Heegaard Graphs
- 33. Reidemeister-Zieschang Problem
- Appendix. Computing Surfaces.