Knots in Hellas '98 : proceedings of the International Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications : European Cultural Centre of Delphi Greece, 7-15 August 1998 / editors C. McA. Gordon ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Gordon, C. McA.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Conference Name:

Knots in Hellas '98 (1998 : Delphoi, Greece)

Series:

K & E series on knots and everything ; vol. 24.

K & E series on knots and everything ; vol. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knot theory--Congresses.

Knot theory.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 564 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, [2000]

Summary:

There have been exciting developments in the area of knot theory in recent years. They include Thurston's work on geometric structures on 3-manifolds (e.g. knot complements), Gordon -- Luecke work on surgeries on knots, Jones' work on invariants of links in S3, and advances in the theory of invariants of 3-manifolds based on Jones- and Vassiliev-type invariants of links. Jones ideas and Thurston's idea are connected by the following path: hyperbolic structures, PSL(2, C) representations, character varieties, quantization of the coordinate ring of the variety to skein modules (i.e. Kauffman, bracket skein module), and finally quantum invariants of 3-manifolds. This proceedings volume cover all those exciting topics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9810243405

OCLC:

45743431