Braids and Coverings: Selected Topics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521387576)

This book is based on a graduate course taught by the author at the University of Maryland. The lecture notes have been revised and augmented by examples. The first two chapters develop the elementary theory of Artin Braid groups, both geometrically and via homotopy theory, and discuss the link between knot theory and the combinatorics of braid groups through Markou's Theorem. The final two chapters give a detailed investigation of polynomial covering maps, which may be viewed as a homomorphism of the fundamental group of the base space into the Artin Braid group on n strings.

Author: Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen
ISBN-10: 0521387574
ISBN-13: 9780521387576
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/07/1989
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.52h x 6.66w x 0.50d