Casson's Invariant for Oriented Homology Three-Spheres: An Exposition

by Selman Akbulut and John D. McCarthy

Book Overview

In the spring of 1985, A. Casson announced an interesting invariant of homology 3-spheres via constructions on representation spaces. This invariant generalizes the Rohlin invariant and gives surprising corollaries in low-dimensional topology. In the fall of that same year, Selman Akbulut and John McCarthy held a seminar on this invariant. These notes grew out of that seminar. The authors have tried to remain close to Casson's original outline...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691607516
• ISBN13: 9780691607511
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"