Homology spheres and the appear to playa crucial role in many problems in low
dimensional topology. For example, the existence of a 3-dimensional homology sphere z:: of …

Knot theory is a rapidly developing field of research with many applications not only for
mathematics. The present volume, written by a well-known specialist, gives a complete …

One of the great achievements of contemporary mathematics is the new understanding of
four dimensions. Michael Freedman and Frank Quinn have been the principals in the …

This book gives a new foundation for the theory of links in 3-space modelled on the modern
development by Jaco, Shalen, Johannson, Thurston, et al., of the theory of 3-manifolds. The …

These notes on the theory of knots comprise an ex panded version of a seminar held in the
Departmento de Geometria y Topologia at the Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain …

Dedicated to Arnold Kas w 1. A framed link L in S 3 is a finite, disjoint collection of smoothly
imbedded circles, 71..... 7r, knotted or unknotted, with an integer~ i (the framing) associated …

Any graph-manifold can be obtained by plumbing according to some plumbing graph
$\Gamma $. A calculus for plumbing which includes normal forms for such graphs is …

I. Introduction. Let p be a normal singularity of the two-dimensional analytic space V. In [1],
Artin introduced a definition for p to be rational. Rational singularities have also been …

The material and references in this extended second edition of" The Topology of Torus
Actions on Symplectic Manifolds", published as Volume 93 in this series in 1991, have been …

We derive explicit formulas for the Chern-Simons-Witten invariants of lens spaces and torus
bundles over S 1, for arbitrary values of the level k. Most of our results are for the group G …