Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups

Joan S. Birman

Princeton University Press, 1975

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The central theme of this study is Artin's braid group and the many ways that the notion of a braid has proved to be important in low-dimensional topology. In Chapter 1 the author is concerned with the concept of a braid as a group of motions of points in a manifold. She studies structural and algebraic properties of the braid groups of two manifol

ISBN-13
9780691081496
ISBN-10
0691081492
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1975
Publication date
1975-02-21
Pages
237
Dimensions
151x230x18
Weight
358