Guts of surfaces and the colored Jones polynomial /

Futer, David.

Guts of surfaces and the colored Jones polynomial / David Futer, Efstratia Kalfagianni, Jessica Purcell. - Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, c2013. - x, 170 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. - Lecture notes in mathematics ; 2069 . - Lecture notes in mathematics (Springer-Verlag) ; 2069. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-166) and index.

Decomposition into 3-balls -- Ideal polyhedra -- I-bundles and essential product disks -- Guts and fibers -- Recognizing essential product disks -- Diagrams without non-prime arcs -- Montesinos links -- Applications -- Discussion and questions.

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Three-manifolds (Topology)
Knot theory.
Complex manifolds.
Geometry, Hyperbolic.

QA613.2 / .F88 2013 QA3 / .L28 no.2069

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