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Volume I: Contributors | |
Names of Participants | |
Introduction | |
Acknowledgements | |
Part I. Four-Manifolds and Algebraic Surfaces | |
1. Yang-Mills invariants of four-manifolds S. K. Donaldson | |
2. On the topology of algebraic surfaces Robert E. Gompf | |
3. The topology of algebraic surfaces with q=pg=0 Dieter Kotschick | |
4. On the homeomorphism classification of smooth knotted surfaces in the 4-sphere Matthias Kreck | |
5. Flat algebraic manifolds F. A. E. Johnson | |
Part II: Floer's Instanton Homology Groups | |
6. Instanton homology, surgery and knots Andreas Floer | |
7. Instanton homology Andreas Floer, notes by Dieter Knotschick | |
8. Invariants for homology 3-spheres | |
9. Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern | |
10. On the Floer homology of Seifert fibered homology 3-spheres Christian Okonek | |
11. Za-invariant SU(2) instantons over the four-sphere Mikio Furuta | |
Part III. Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics | |
Skyrme fields and instantons N. S. Manton | |
12. Representations of braid groups and operators coupled to monopoles Ralph E. Cohen and John D. S. Jones | |
13. Extremal immersions and the extended frame bundle D. H. Hartley and R. W. Tucker | |
14. Minimal surfaces in quaternionic symmetric spaces F. E. Burstall | |
15. Three-dimensional Einstein-Weyl geometry K. P. Tod | |
16. Harmonic Morphisms, conformal foliations and Seifert fibre spaces John C. Wood. Volume II: Contributors | |
Names of Participants | |
Introduction | |
Acknowledgements | |
Part I. Symplectic Geometry | |
Introduction | |
1. Rational and ruled symplectic 4-manifolds Dusa McDuff | |
2. Symplectic capacities H. Hofer | |
3. The nonlinear Maslov index A. B. Givental | |
4. Filling by holomorphic discs and its applications Yakov Eliashberg | |
Part II. Jones/Witten Theory | |
5. Introduction | |
6. New results in Chern-Simons theory Edward Witten, notes by Lisa Jeffrey | |
7. Geometric quantization of spaces of connections N. J. Hitchin | |
8. Evaluations of the 3-manifold invariants of Witten and Reshetikhin-Turaev for sl(2, C) Robion Kirby and Paul Melvin | |
9. Representations of braid groups M. F. Atiyah, notes by S. K. Donaldson | |
Part III. Three-Dimensional Manifolds | |
10. Introduction | |
11. An introduction to polyhedral metrics of non-positive curvature on 3-manifolds I. R. Aitchison and J. H. Rubinstein | |
12. Finite groups of hyperbolic isometries C. B. Thomas | |
13. Pin structures on low-dimensional manifolds R. C. Kirby and L. R. Taylor. |
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