Knot Theory and Manifolds: Proceedings of a Conference held in Vancouver, Canada, June 2–4, 1983

Steven A. Bleiler (auth.), Dale Rolfsen (eds.)9780387156804, 0-387-15680-1

Table of contents :
Prime tangles and composite knots….Pages 1-13
An internal hierarchy for 3-manifolds….Pages 14-17
The finitely generated intersection property for kleinian groups….Pages 18-24
Universal knots….Pages 25-59
Involutions and isotopies of lens spaces….Pages 60-96
Symmetries of twist-spun knots….Pages 97-107
Constructing pseudo-Anosov maps….Pages 108-114
Transversality for surfaces in foliated 3-manifolds….Pages 115-133
2-Heights of links….Pages 134-137
3-Manifolds with H 2 (A,∂A)=0 and a conjecture of stallings….Pages 138-145
Positive knots have positive Conway polynomials….Pages 146-159