Surfaces in 4-space /
Surfaces in 4-Space, written by leading specialists in the field, discusses knotted surfaces in 4-dimensional space and surveys many of the known results in the area. Results on knotted surface diagrams, constructions of knotted surfaces, classically defined invariants, and new invariants defined vi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[2010]
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| Series: | Encyclopaedia of mathematical sciences ;
v. 142. Encyclopaedia of mathematical sciences. Low-dimensional topology ; 3. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Surfaces in 4-Space, written by leading specialists in the field, discusses knotted surfaces in 4-dimensional space and surveys many of the known results in the area. Results on knotted surface diagrams, constructions of knotted surfaces, classically defined invariants, and new invariants defined via quandle homology theory are presented. The last chapter comprises many recent results, and techniques for computation are presented. New tables of quandles with a few elements and the homology groups thereof are included. This book contains many new illustrations of knotted surface diagrams. The reader of the book will become intimately aware of the subtleties in going from the classical case of knotted circles in 3-space to this higher dimensional case. As a survey, the book is a guide book to the extensive literature on knotted surfaces and will become a useful reference for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and physics. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783662101629 (electronic bk.) 3662101629 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0938-0396 ; |