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Braids and Coverings: Selected Topics
Contributor(s): Hansen, Vagn Lundsgaard (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521387574     ISBN-13: 9780521387576
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $55.09  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1990
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Annotation: This book is based on a graduate course taught by the author at the University of Maryland. The lecture notes have been revised and augmented by examples. The first two chapters develop the elementary theory of Artin Braid groups, both geometrically and via homotopy theory, and discuss the link between knot theory and the combinatorics of braid groups through Markou's Theorem. The final two chapters give a detailed investigation of polynomial covering maps, which may be viewed as a homomorphism of the fundamental group of the base space into the Artin Braid group on n strings.

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BISAC Categories:
- Mathematics | Topology - General
- Mathematics | Algebra - General
- Science
Dewey: 514.224
Series: Selected Topics
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.66" W x 8.52" L (0.69 lbs) 204 pages
Features: Bibliography, Maps
 
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