A study of braids in 3-manifolds
This work provides the topological background and a preliminary study for the analogue of the 2-variable Jones polynomial as an invariant of oriented links in arbitrary 3- manifolds via normalized traces of appropriate algebras, and it is organized as follows: Chapter 1: Motivated by the study of th...
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University of Warwick
1993
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386290 |