Introduction to Combinatorial Torsions:
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1. Verfasser: Turaev, Vladimir (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Basel Birkhäuser Basel 2001
Schriftenreihe:Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich, Department of Mathematics Research Institute of Mathematics
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Beschreibung:This book is an extended version of the notes of my lecture course given at ETH in spring 1999. The course was intended as an introduction to combinatorial torsions and their relations to the famous Seiberg-Witten invariants. Torsions were introduced originally in the 3-dimensional setting by K. Rei­ demeister (1935) who used them to give a homeomorphism classification of 3-dimensional lens spaces. The Reidemeister torsions are defined using simple linear algebra and standard notions of combinatorial topology: triangulations (or, more generally, CW-decompositions), coverings, cellular chain complexes, etc. The Reidemeister torsions were generalized to arbitrary dimensions by W. Franz (1935) and later studied by many authors. In 1962, J. Milnor observed 3 that the classical Alexander polynomial of a link in the 3-sphere 8 can be interpreted as a torsion of the link exterior. Milnor's arguments work for an arbitrary compact 3-manifold M whose boundary is non-void and consists of tori: The Alexander polynomial of M and the Milnor torsion of M essentially coincide
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 123p)
ISBN:9783034883214
9783764364038
DOI:10.1007/978-3-0348-8321-4

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