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Lectures on Three-Manifold Topology

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William Jaco, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Publication: CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics
Publication Year: 1980; Volume 43
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1693-6 (print); 978-1-4704-2403-9 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/cbms/043
MathSciNet review: MR565450
MSC: Primary 57N10

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• Chapter I. Loop theorem-sphere theorem: The Tower Construction
• Chapter II. Connected sums
• Chapter III. 2-manifolds embedded in 3-manifolds
• Chapter IV. Hierarchies
• Chapter V. Three-manifold groups
• Chapter VI. Seifert fibered manifolds
• Chapter VII. Peripheral structure
• Chapter VIII. Essential homotopies (The annulus-torus theorems)
• Chapter IX. Characteristic Seifert pairs
• Chapter X. Deforming homotopy equivalences