High-dimensional Knot Theory

Download or read book High-dimensional Knot Theory written by Andrew Ranicki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together many results previously scattered throughout the research literature into a single framework, this work concentrates on the application of the author's algebraic theory of surgery to provide a unified treatment of the invariants of codimension 2 embeddings, generalizing the Alexander polynomials and Seifert forms of classical knot theory.