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Imprint:Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, [1984]
Description:vii, 528 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Contemporary mathematics ; v. 35
Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) v. 35.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/652695
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Other authors / contributors:Gordon, Cameron, 1945-
Kirby, Robion C., 1938-
ISBN:0821850334
Notes:Includes bibliographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Fibered knots and involutions on homotopy spheres
  • A fake $4$-manifold
  • Approximating cell-like maps of $S^4$ by homeomorphisms
  • Linking numbers in branched covers
  • Atomic surgery problems
  • Smooth $4$-manifolds with definite intersection form
  • The solution of the $4$-dimensional annulus conjecture (after Frank Quinn)
  • A $\mu$-invariant one homology $3$-sphere that bounds an orientable rational ball
  • Another construction of an exotic $S^1\times S^3\,\#\,S^2\times S^2$
  • On Freedman's reimbedding theorems
  • The homology of the mapping class group and its connection to surface bundles over surfaces
  • Rochlin invariant and $\alpha$-invariant
  • Cobordism of satellite knots
  • Complex structures on $4$-manifolds
  • Good torus fibrations
  • $4$-dimensional oriented bordism
  • A new proof of the homology torus and annulus theorem
  • Fibered knots in $S^4$-twisting, spinning, rolling, surgery, and branching
  • The embedding theorem for towers
  • Smooth structures on $4$-manifolds
  • Concordance of links in $S^4$
  • Constructions of quasipositive knots and links, II
  • An introduction to self-dual connections
  • $4$-manifold problems