Algebraic Invariants of Links

This book is intended as a reference on links and on the invariants derived via algebraic topology from covering spaces of i ink exteriors. It emphasizes features of the multicomponent case not normally considered by knot theorists, such as longitudes, the homological complexity of many-variable Laurent polynomial rings, free coverings of homology boundary links, the fact that links are not usually 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Hillman, Jonathan (Univ Of Sydney Hillman
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2002
• EAN: 9789812381545
• ISBN: 978-981-238-154-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 585 g
• Series: Series on Knots & Everything; Knots and Everything
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Arithmetic, algebra