Foliations and the Geometry of 3-Manifolds

ISBN-13: 9780198570080 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 352 str.

Danny Calegari

Opis

This unique reference, aimed at research topologists, gives an exposition of the 'pseudo-Anosov' theory of foliations of 3-manifolds. This theory generalizes Thurston's theory of surface automorphisms and reveals an intimate connection between dynamics, geometry and topology in 3 dimensions. Significant themes returned to throughout the text include the importance of geometry, especially the hyperbolic geometry of surfaces, the importance of monotonicity, especially in 1-dimensional and co-dimensional dynamics, and combinatorial approximation, using finite combinatorical objects such as train-tracks, branched surfaces and hierarchies to carry more complicated continuous objects.

Recenzje

The book is extremely well written and it is very pleasant to read. The definitions and the statements of the results are presented clearly, with a lot of illustrations and judicious examples ... This book is unique on most of the topics that it contains, and, for this and for other reasons, it constitutes a very important contribution to low-dimensional topology literature.