{"product_id":"global-surgery-formula-for-the-casson-walker-invariant","title":"Global Surgery Formula for the Casson-Walker Invariant","description":"This book presents a new result in 3-dimensional topology. It is well known that any closed oriented 3-manifold can be obtained by surgery on a framed link in S 3. In Global Surgery Formula for the Casson-Walker Invariant, a function F of framed links in S 3 is described, and it is proven that F consistently defines an invariant, lamda (l), of closed oriented 3-manifolds. l is then expressed in terms of previously known invariants of 3-manifolds. For integral homology spheres, l is the invariant introduced by Casson in 1985, which allowed him to solve old and famous questions in 3-dimensional topology. l becomes simpler as the first Betti number increases. As an explicit function of Alexander polynomials and surgery coefficients of framed links, the function F extends in a natural way to framed links in rational homology spheres. It is proven that F describes the variation of l under any surgery starting from a rational homology sphere. Thus F yields a global surgery formula for the Casson invariant.","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222048166232,"sku":"9780691021324","price":90.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780691021324.jpg?v=1770703241","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/global-surgery-formula-for-the-casson-walker-invariant","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}