Lecture notes on knot invariants /

"The volume is focused on the basic calculation skills of various knot invariants defined from topology and geometry. It presents the detailed Hecke algebra and braid representation to illustrate the original Jones polynomial (rather than the algebraic formal definition many other books and res...

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Main Authors: Li, Weiping, 1963- (Author)
Corporate Authors: World Scientific (Firm)
Published: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.,
Publisher Address: Singapore :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9595#t=toc
Summary: "The volume is focused on the basic calculation skills of various knot invariants defined from topology and geometry. It presents the detailed Hecke algebra and braid representation to illustrate the original Jones polynomial (rather than the algebraic formal definition many other books and research articles use) and provides self-contained proofs of the Tait conjecture (one of the big achievements from the Jones invariant). It also presents explicit computations to the Casson Lin invariant via braid representations. With the approach of an explicit computational point of view on knot invariants, this user-friendly volume will benefit readers to easily understand low-dimensional topology from examples and computations, rather than only knowing terminologies and theorems."--
Item Description: Title from PDF file title page (viewed October 13, 2015).
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index.
ISBN: 9789814675970 (ebook)
9814675970 (ebook)
Index Number: QA612
CLC: O189.24