The Algebraic Characterization of Geometric 4-Manifolds (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series)

The Algebraic Characterization of Geometric 4-Manifolds (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series)

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This book describes work on the characterization of closed 4-manifolds in terms of familiar invariants such as Euler characteristic, fundamental group, and Stiefel-Whitney classes. Using techniques from homological group theory, the theory of 3-manifolds and topological surgery, infrasolvmanifolds are characterized up to homeomorphism, and surface bundles are characterized up to simple homotopy equivalence. Non-orientable cases are also considered wherever possible, and in the final chapter the results obtained earlier are applied to 2-knots and complex analytic surfaces.

The Algebraic Characterization of Geometric 4-Manifolds (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series),J. A. Hillman,N. J. Hitchin,Cambridge University Press,0521467780,Algebraic Geometry,Applied,Four-manifolds (Topology),Geometry - General,Homotopy theory,Mathematics,Science/Mathematics,Mathematics / Applied,Topology

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