The Algebraic Characterization of Geometric 4-Manifolds (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521467780)

This book describes work on the characterization of closed 4-manifolds in terms of familiar invariants such as Euler characteristic, fundamental group, and Stiefel-Whitney classes. Using techniques from homological group theory, the theory of 3-manifolds and topological surgery, infrasolvmanifolds are characterized up to homeomorphism, and surface bundles are characterized up to simple homotopy equivalence. Non-orientable cases are also considered wherever possible, and in the final chapter the results obtained earlier are applied to 2-knots and complex analytic surfaces.

Author: J. A. Hillman
ISBN-10: 0521467780
ISBN-13: 9780521467780
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/03/1994
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.00w x 0.43d