SL(2) Representations of Finitely Presented Groups (Contemporary Mathematics) - Softcover

Brumfiel, Gregory W.; Hilden, H. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821804162 ISBN 13: 9780821804162

Publisher: American Mathematical Society, 1995

Synopsis

This book is essentially self-contained and requires only a basic abstract algebra course as background. The book includes and extends much of the classical theory of $SL(2)$ representations of groups. Readers will find $SL(2)$Representations of Finitely Presented Groups relevant to geometric theory of three dimensional manifolds, representations of infinite groups, and invariant theory. It features: a new finitely computable invariant $H[\pi]$ associated to groups and used to study the $SL(2)$ representations of $\pi$; and, invariant theory and knot theory related through $SL(2)$ representations of knot groups.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821804162
• ISBN 13: 9780821804162
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1