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The Wild World of 4 Manifolds
Author | : Alexandru Scorpan |
Publsiher | : American Mathematical Society |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2022-01-26 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781470468613 |
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What a wonderful book! I strongly recommend this book to anyone, especially graduate students, interested in getting a sense of 4-manifolds. —MAA Reviews The book gives an excellent overview of 4-manifolds, with many figures and historical notes. Graduate students, nonexperts, and experts alike will enjoy browsing through it. — Robion C. Kirby, University of California, Berkeley This book offers a panorama of the topology of simply connected smooth manifolds of dimension four. Dimension four is unlike any other dimension; it is large enough to have room for wild things to happen, but small enough so that there is no room to undo the wildness. For example, only manifolds of dimension four can exhibit infinitely many distinct smooth structures. Indeed, their topology remains the least understood today. To put things in context, the book starts with a survey of higher dimensions and of topological 4-manifolds. In the second part, the main invariant of a 4-manifold—the intersection form—and its interaction with the topology of the manifold are investigated. In the third part, as an important source of examples, complex surfaces are reviewed. In the final fourth part of the book, gauge theory is presented; this differential-geometric method has brought to light how unwieldy smooth 4-manifolds truly are, and while bringing new insights, has raised more questions than answers. The structure of the book is modular, organized into a main track of about two hundred pages, augmented by extensive notes at the end of each chapter, where many extra details, proofs and developments are presented. To help the reader, the text is peppered with over 250 illustrations and has an extensive index.
The Topology of 4 Manifolds
Author | : Robion C. Kirby |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2006-11-14 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9783540461715 |
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This book presents the classical theorems about simply connected smooth 4-manifolds: intersection forms and homotopy type, oriented and spin bordism, the index theorem, Wall's diffeomorphisms and h-cobordism, and Rohlin's theorem. Most of the proofs are new or are returbishings of post proofs; all are geometric and make us of handlebody theory. There is a new proof of Rohlin's theorem using spin structures. There is an introduction to Casson handles and Freedman's work including a chapter of unpublished proofs on exotic R4's. The reader needs an understanding of smooth manifolds and characteristic classes in low dimensions. The book should be useful to beginning researchers in 4-manifolds.
The Geometry of Four manifolds
Author | : S. K. Donaldson,P. B. Kronheimer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198502699 |
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This text provides an accessible account to the modern study of the geometry of four-manifolds. Prerequisites are a firm grounding in differential topology and geometry, as may be gained from the first year of a graduate course.
Instantons and Four Manifolds
Author | : Daniel S. Freed,Karen K. Uhlenbeck |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781461397038 |
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From the reviews of the first edition: "This book exposes the beautiful confluence of deep techniques and ideas from mathematical physics and the topological study of the differentiable structure of compact four-dimensional manifolds, compact spaces locally modeled on the world in which we live and operate... The book is filled with insightful remarks, proofs, and contributions that have never before appeared in print. For anyone attempting to understand the work of Donaldson and the applications of gauge theories to four-dimensional topology, the book is a must." #Science#1 "I would strongly advise the graduate student or working mathematician who wishes to learn the analytic aspects of this subject to begin with Freed and Uhlenbeck's book." #Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society#2
Geometry and Physics
Author | : Rui Loja Fernandes,Roger Picken |
Publsiher | : American Institute of Physics |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2008-07-03 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822036955730 |
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Gazette Australian Mathematical Society
Author | : Australian Mathematical Society |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015059008279 |
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Gauge Theory and the Topology of Four Manifolds
Author | : Robert Friedman,John W. Morgan |
Publsiher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Four-manifolds (Topology). |
ISBN | : 9780821805916 |
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This text is part of the IAS/Park City Mathematics series and focuses on gauge theory and the topology of four-manifolds.
Algebraic Geometric Topology
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Algebraic topology |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822036924736 |
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