surfaces

Guts of Surfaces and the Colored Jones Polynomial (Lecture Notes in Mathematics) English | 180 pages | ISBN-10: 364233301X | PDF | 3,92 MB This monograph derives direct and concrete relations between colored Jones polynomials and the topology of incompressible spanning surfaces in knot and link...

A Guide to the Classification Theorem for Compact Surfaces (Geometry and Computing) English | 190 pages | ISBN-10: 3642343635 | PDF | 4,51 MB This welcome boon for students of algebraic topology cuts a much-needed central path between other texts whose treatment of the classification theorem...