The wild world of 4-manifolds /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Providence, R.I. :
American Mathematical Society,
[2005]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Higher dimensions and the h-Cobordism theorem
- Ch. 2. Topological 4-manifolds and h-Cobordisms
- Ch. 3. Getting acquainted with intersection forms
- Ch. 4. Intersection forms and topology
- Ch. 5. Classifications and counterclassifications
- Ch. 6. Running through complex geometry
- Ch. 7. The Enriques-Kodaira classification
- Ch. 8. Elliptic surfaces
- Ch. 9. Prelude, and the Donaldson invariants
- Ch. 10. The Seiberg-Witten invariants
- Ch. 11. The minimum genus of embedded surfaces
- Ch. 12. Wildness unleashed : the Fintushel-Stern surgery.