Knots, Groups and 3-Manifolds - Papers Dedicated to the Memory of R.H. Fox

There is a sympathy of ideas among the fields of knot theory, infinite discrete group theory, and the topology of 3-manifolds. This book contains fifteen papers in which new results are proved in all three of these fields. These papers are dedicated to the memory of Ralph H. Fox, one of the world's leading topologists, by colleagues, former students, and friends.

In knot theory, papers have been contributed by Goldsmith, Levine, Lomonaco, Perko, Trotter, and Whitten. Of these several are devoted to the study of branched covering spaces over knots and links, while others utilize the braid groups of Artin.

Cossey and Smythe, Stallings, and Strasser address themselves to group theory. In his contribution Stallings describes the calculation of the groups In/In+1 where I is the augmentation ideal in a group ring RG. As a consequence, one has for each k an example of a k-generator l-relator group with no free homomorphs. In the third part, papers by Birman, Cappell, Milnor, Montesinos, Papakyriakopoulos, and Shalen comprise the treatment of 3-manifolds. Milnor gives, besides important new results, an exposition of certain aspects of our current knowledge regarding the 3- dimensional Brieskorn manifolds.

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Lee Paul Neuwirth

Summary

There is a sympathy of ideas among the fields of knot theory, infinite discrete group theory, and the topology of 3-manifolds. This book contains fifteen papers in which new results are proved in all three of these fields. These papers are dedicated to the memory of Ralph H. Fox, one of the world's leading topologists, by colleagues, former student

Product details

• Authors: L. P. Neuwirth, Lee Neuwirth, Lee Paul Neuwirth, Elias Stein
• Assisted by: Phillip Griffiths (Editor), John N. Mather (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.1975
• EAN: 9780691081700
• ISBN: 978-0-691-08170-0
• No. of pages: 346
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: Annals of Mathematics Studies; Annals of Mathematics Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; MATHEMATICS / Topology, MATHEMATICS / Combinatorics, Combinatorics & graph theory, Algebraic Topology, Combinatorics and graph theory