Knots, braids, and mapping class groups--papers dedicated to Joan S. Birman : proceedings of a conference on low dimensional topology in honor of Joan S. Birman's 70th birthday, March 14-15, 1998, Columbia University, New York, New York / Jane Gilman, William W. Menasco, and Xiao-Song Lin, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Birman, Joan S., 1927-

Gilman, Jane, 1945-

Menasco, William W., 1954-

Lin, Xiao-song, 1957-

Series:

AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 2472-5153 ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Low-dimensional topology--Congresses.

Low-dimensional topology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 176 p. : ill.)

Place of Publication:

Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, c2001.

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Contents:

Upper bounds for the writhing of knots and the helicity of vector fields The automorphism group of a free group is not subgroup separable Configuration spaces and braid groups on graphs in robotics Alternate discreteness tests Intersection-number operators for curves on discs and Chebyshev polynomials Implicit function theorem over free groups and genus problem On the $z$-degree of the Kauffman polynomial of a tangle decomposition Knot invariants from counting periodic points Random walk on knot diagrams, colored Jones polynomial and Ihara-Selberg zeta function Some applications of a multiplicative structure on simple loops in surfaces Closed braids and Heegaard splittings Homotopy and q-homotopy skein modules of 3-manifolds: An example in algebra Situs On knot invariants which are not of finite type

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2012

Description based on print version record.

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Print version: Knots, braids, and mapping class groups--papers dedicated to Joan S. Birman :

ISBN:

9781470438142 (online)

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