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- Preface
- Introduction
- Glossary
- 1 Heegaard splittings
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Existence of Heegaard splittings
- 1.3 Stable equivalence of Heegaard splittings
- 1.4 The mapping class group
- 1.5 Manifolds of Heegaard genus ⤠1
- 1.6 Seifert manifolds
- 2 Dehn surgery
- 2.1 Knots and links in 3-manifolds
- 2.2 Surgery on links in S3
- 2.3 Surgery description of lens spaces and Seifert manifolds
- 2.4 Surgery and 4-manifolds
- 3 Kirby calculus
- 3.1 The linking number
- 3.2 Kirby moves
- 3.3 The linking matrix
- 3.4 Reversing orientation
- 4 Even surgeries
- 5 Review of 4-manifolds
- 5.1 Definition of the intersection form
- 5.2 The unimodular integral forms
- 5.3 Four-manifolds and intersection forms
- 6 Four-manifolds with boundary
- 6.1 The intersection form
- 6.2 Homology spheres via surgery on knots
- 6.3 Seifert homology spheres
- 6.4 The Rohlin invariant
- 7 Invariants of knots and links
- 7.1 Seifert surfaces
- 7.2 Seifert matrices
- 7.3 The Alexander polynomial
- 7.4 Other invariants from Seifert surfaces
- 7.5 Knots in homology spheres
- 7.6 Boundary links and the Alexander polynomial
- 8 Fibered knots
- 8.1 The definition of a fibered knot
- 8.2 The monodromy
- 8.3 More about torus knots
- 8.4 Joins
- 8.5 The monodromy of torus knots
- 9 The Arf-invariant
- 9.1 The Arf-invariant of a quadratic form
- 9.2 The Arf-invariant of a knot
- 10 Rohlinâs theorem
- 10.1 Characteristic surfaces
- 10.2 The definition of qĚ
- 10.3 Representing homology classes by surfaces
- 11 The Rohlin invariant
- 11.1 Definition of the Rohlin invariant
- 11.2 The Rohlin invariant of Seifert spheres
- 11.3 A surgery formula for the Rohlin invariant
- 11.4 The homology cobordism group
- 12 The Casson invariant
- 13 The group SU(2)
- 14 Representation spaces
- 14.1 The topology of representation spaces
- 14.2 Irreducible representations
- 14.3 Representations of free groups
- 14.4 Representations of surface groups
- 14.5 Representations of Seifert homology spheres
- 15 The local properties of representation spaces
- 16 Cassonâs invariant for Heegaard splittings
- 16.1 The intersection product
- 16.2 The orientations
- 16.3 Independence of Heegaard splitting
- 17 Cassonâs invariant for knots
- 17.1 Preferred Heegaard splittings
- 17.2 The Casson invariant for knots
- 17.3 The difference cycle
- 17.4 The Casson invariant for unlinks
- 17.5 The Casson invariant of a trefoil
- 18 An application of the Casson invariant
- 18.1 Triangulating 4-manifolds
- 18.2 Higher-dimensional manifolds
- 19 The Casson invariant of Seifert manifolds
- 19.1 The space R(p, q, r)
- 19.2 Calculation of the Casson invariant
- Conclusion
- Exercises
- Bibliography
- Index