Casson's Invariant for Oriented Homology Three-Spheres: An Exposition

by Selman Akbulut and John D. McCarthy

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In the spring of 1985, A. Casson announced an interesting invariant of homology 3-spheres via constructions on representation spaces. This invariant generalizes the Rohlin invariant and gives surprising corollaries in low-dimensional topology. In the fall of that same year, Selman Akbulut and John McCarthy held a seminar on this invariant. These notes grew out of that seminar. The authors have tried to remain close to Casson's original outline...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691607516

ISBN13:9780691607511

Release Date:July 2014

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:202 Pages

Weight:0.64 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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