Ordered Groups and Topology

Clay, Adam; Rolfsen, Dale

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Ordered Groups and Topology

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Adam Clay, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada and Dale Rolfsen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Publication: Graduate Studies in Mathematics
Publication Year: 2016; Volume 176
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-3106-8 (print); 978-1-4704-3562-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/gsm/176
MathSciNet review: MR3560661
MSC: Primary 57-02; Secondary 20F34, 20F36, 20F60, 57M07, 57M50

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Chapter 1. Orderable groups and their algebraic properties
Chapter 2. Hölder’s theorem, convex subgroups and dynamics
Chapter 3. Free groups, surface groups and covering spaces
Chapter 4. Knots
Chapter 5. Three-dimensional manifolds
Chapter 6. Foliations
Chapter 7. Left-orderings of the braid groups
Chapter 8. Groups of homeomorphisms
Chapter 9. Conradian left-orderings and local indicability
Chapter 10. Spaces of orderings

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