Signatures of surfaces in 3-manifolds and applications to knot and link cobordism
This thesis has two chapters. The first investigates necessary conditions for a classical knot to be slice, improving on some results obtained by Casson and Gordon. The method is to study a Seifert form on an arbitrary surface in an arbitrary 3-manifold M. By analogy to the Seifert form of a knot, c...
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University of Warwick
1982
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.330763 |