Higher-dimensional knots according to Michel Kervaire /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Michel, Françoise Mathematician
Group Author: Weber, C. Claude
Published: European Mathematical Society,
Publisher Address: Zürich, Switzerland :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: EMS series of lectures in mathematics
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Carrier Form: ix, 134 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [121]-128) and indexes.
ISBN: 9783037191804 (paperback) :
3037191805 (paperback)
Index Number: QA612
CLC: O189.24
Call Number: O189.24/M623
Contents: Some tools of differential topology -- The Kervaire-Milnor study of homotopy spheres -- Differentiable knots in codimension -- The fundamental group of a knot complement -- Knot modules -- Odd-dimensional simple links -- Knot cobordism -- Singularities of complex hypersurfaces -- A. Linking numbers and signs -- B. Existence of Seifert hypersurfaces -- C. Open book decompositions -- D. Handlebodies and plumbings -- E. Homotopy spheres embedded in codimension 2 and the Kervaire-Arf-Robertello-Levine invariant -- F. Figures.