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E-raamat: Algebraic Invariants of Links 2nd edition [World Scientific e-raamat]

(Univ Of Sydney, Australia)
  • Formaat: 372 pages, Illustrations
  • Sari: Series on Knots & Everything 52
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Aug-2012
  • Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
  • ISBN-13: 9789814407397
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  • Formaat: 372 pages, Illustrations
  • Sari: Series on Knots & Everything 52
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Aug-2012
  • Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
  • ISBN-13: 9789814407397
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This book serves as a reference on links and on the invariants derived via algebraic topology from covering spaces of link exteriors. It emphasizes the features of the multicomponent case not normally considered by knot-theorists, such as longitudes, the homological complexity of many-variable Laurent polynomial rings, the fact that links are not usually boundary links, free coverings of homology boundary links, the lower central series as a source of invariants, nilpotent completion and algebraic closure of the link group, and disc links. Invariants of the types considered here play an essential role in many applications of knot theory to other areas of topology.This second edition introduces two new chapters twisted polynomial invariants and singularities of plane curves. Each replaces brief sketches in the first edition. Chapter 2 has been reorganized, and new material has been added to four other chapters.
Preface xi
Part 1 Abelian Covers
1(140)
Chapter 1 Links
3(24)
1.1 Basic notions
3(2)
1.2 The link group
5(5)
1.3 Homology boundary links
10(1)
1.4 Z/2Z-boundary links
11(2)
1.5 Isotopy, concordance and I-equivalence
13(3)
1.6 Link homotopy and surgery
16(2)
1.7 Ribbon links
18(6)
1.8 Link-symmetric groups
24(1)
1.9 Link composition
25(2)
Chapter 2 Homology and Duality in Covers
27(20)
2.1 Homology and cohomology with local coefficients
27(1)
2.2 Covers of link exteriors
28(2)
2.3 Some terminology and notation
30(1)
2.4 Poincare duality and the Blanchfield pairings
30(3)
2.5 The total linking number cover
33(2)
2.6 The maximal abelian cover
35(1)
2.7 Boundary 1-links
36(2)
2.8 Concordance
38(2)
2.9 Additivity
40(2)
2.10 Signatures
42(5)
Chapter 3 Determinantal Invariants
47(22)
3.1 Elementary ideals
47(7)
3.2 The Elementary Divisor Theorem
54(2)
3.3 Extensions
56(3)
3.4 Reidemeister-Franz torsion
59(2)
3.5 Steinitz-Fox-Smythe invariants
61(2)
3.6 1- and 2-dimensional rings
63(3)
3.7 Bilinear pairings
66(3)
Chapter 4 The Maximal Abelian Cover
69(26)
4.1 Metabelian groups and the Crowell sequence
69(2)
4.2 Free metabelian groups
71(2)
4.3 Link module sequences
73(3)
4.4 Localization of link module sequences
76(2)
4.5 Chen groups
78(1)
4.6 Applications to links
78(5)
4.7 Chen groups, nullity and longitudes
83(4)
4.8 I-equivalence
87(2)
4.9 The sign-determined Alexander polynomial
89(2)
4.10 Higher dimensional links
91(4)
Chapter 5 Sublinks and Other Abelian Covers
95(30)
5.1 The Torres conditions
95(5)
5.2 Torsion again
100(3)
5.3 Partial derivatives
103(2)
5.4 The total linking number cover
105(3)
5.5 Murasugi nullity
108(2)
5.6 Fibred links
110(3)
5.7 Finite abelian covers
113(6)
5.8 Cyclic branched covers
119(3)
5.9 Families of coverings
122(3)
Chapter 6 Twisted Polynomial Invariants
125(16)
6.1 Definition in terms of local coefficients
125(2)
6.2 Presentations
127(2)
6.3 Reidemeister-Franz torsion
129(1)
6.4 Duals and pairings
130(2)
6.5 Reciprocity
132(4)
6.6 Applications
136(5)
Part 2 Applications: Special Cases and Symmetries
141(106)
Chapter 7 Knot Modules
143(24)
7.1 Knot modules
143(2)
7.2 A Dedekind criterion
145(2)
7.3 Cyclic modules
147(3)
7.4 Recovering the module from the polynomial
150(2)
7.5 Homogeneity and realizing π-primary sequences
152(2)
7.6 The Blanchfield pairing
154(5)
7.7 Blanchfield pairings and Seifert matrices
159(2)
7.8 Branched covers
161(2)
7.9 Alexander polynomials of ribbon links
163(4)
Chapter 8 Links with Two Components
167(22)
8.1 Bailey's Theorem
167(5)
8.2 Consequences of Bailey's Theorem
172(4)
8.3 The Blanchfield pairing
176(2)
8.4 Links with Alexander polynomial 0
178(3)
8.5 2-Component Z/2Z-boundary links
181(2)
8.6 Topological concordance and F-isotopy
183(1)
8.7 Some examples
184(5)
Chapter 9 Symmetries
189(30)
9.1 Basic notions
189(1)
9.2 Symmetries of knot types
190(6)
9.3 Group actions on links
196(1)
9.4 Strong symmetries
197(2)
9.5 Semifree periods - the Murasugi conditions
199(6)
9.6 Semifree periods and splitting fields
205(3)
9.7 Links with infinitely many semifree periods
208(4)
9.8 Knots with free periods
212(3)
9.9 Equivariant concordance
215(4)
Chapter 10 Singularities of Plane Algebraic Curves
219(28)
10.1 Algebraic curves
219(3)
10.2 Power series
222(4)
10.3 Puiseux series
226(4)
10.4 The Milnor number
230(4)
10.5 The conductor
234(5)
10.6 Resolution of singularities
239(1)
10.7 The Gauß-Manin connection
240(2)
10.8 The weighted homogeneous case
242(3)
10.9 An hermitean pairing
245(2)
Part 3 Free Covers, Nilpotent Quotients and Completion
247(76)
Chapter 11 Free Covers
249(24)
11.1 Free group rings
249(2)
11.2 Z[ F(μ)]-modules
251(6)
11.3 The Sato property
257(2)
11.4 The Farber derivations
259(1)
11.5 The maximal free cover and duality
260(4)
11.6 The classical case
264(2)
11.7 The case n = 2
266(1)
11.8 An unlinking theorem
266(2)
11.9 Patterns and calibrations
268(2)
11.10 Concordance
270(3)
Chapter 12 Nilpotent Quotients
273(20)
12.1 Massey products
273(2)
12.2 Products, the Dwyer filtration and gropes
275(2)
12.3 Mod-p analogues
277(1)
12.4 The graded Lie algebra of a group
278(1)
12.5 DGAs and minimal models
279(3)
12.6 Free derivatives
282(1)
12.7 Milnor invariants
283(5)
12.8 Link homotopy and the Milnor group
288(2)
12.9 Variants of the Milnor invariants
290(1)
12.10 Solvable quotients and covering spaces
291(2)
Chapter 13 Algebraic Closure
293(14)
13.1 Homological localization
293(1)
13.2 The nilpotent completion of a group
294(1)
13.3 The algebraic closure of a group
295(6)
13.4 Complements on F(μ)
301(2)
13.5 Other notions of closure
303(1)
13.6 Orr invariants and cSHB-links
304(3)
Chapter 14 Disc Links
307(16)
14.1 Disc links and string links
307(2)
14.2 Longitudes
309(1)
14.3 Concordance and the Artin representation
310(4)
14.4 Homotopy
314(1)
14.5 Milnor invariants again
315(1)
14.6 The Gassner representation
316(3)
14.7 High dimensions
319(4)
Bibliography 323(24)
Index 347