Braids, links, and mapping class groups
Auteur :
Birman, Joan S.
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691081496
Date de publication :
21 févr. 1975
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
312 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The central theme of this study is Artin's braid group and the many ways that the notion of a braid has proved to be important in low-dimensional topology. In Chapter 1 the author is concerned with the concept of a braid as a group of motions of points in a manifold. She studies structural and algebraic properties of the braid groups of two manifol