Topology of Low-Dimensional Manifolds: Proceedings of the Second Sussex Conference, 1977

Joan S. Birman (auth.), Roger Fenn (eds.)9780387095066, 0-387-09506-3

Table of contents :
A representation theorem for fibered knots and their monodromy maps….Pages 1-8
Homogeneity of S 2 × T 2 ….Pages 9-15
A link calculus for 4-manifolds….Pages 16-30
Nice spines of 3-manifolds….Pages 31-36
Introducting doodles….Pages 37-43
Generators for the mapping class group….Pages 44-47
On the mapping class group of simple 3-manifolds….Pages 48-66
Shake — Slice knots….Pages 67-70
Signatures of iterated torus knots….Pages 71-84
Some homology 3-spheres which bound acyclic 4-manifolds….Pages 85-92
A criterion for an embedded surface in ℝ 3 to be unknotted….Pages 93-98
An elliptical path from parabolic representations to hyperbolic structures….Pages 99-133
Presentations and the trivial group….Pages 134-143
On the genera of knots….Pages 144-154