Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/BVXCUl Braids and Coverings Selected Topics By: Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen Publisher: Cambridge University Press Print ISBN: 9780521384797, 0521384796 eText ISBN: 9780511877162, 0511877161 Edition: 1st Format: PDF Available from $ 40.00 USD SKU 9780511877162 This book is based on a graduate course taught by the author at the University of Maryland. The work falls into two strands: first the elementary theory of Artin Braid groups is developed and the link between knot theory and the combinatorics of braid groups is discussed through Markov's theorem; this is followed by an investigation of polynomial maps.
