Thurston's Work on Surfaces (MN-48)
This book provides a detailed exposition of William Thurston's work on surface homeomorphisms, available here for the first time in English. Based on material of Thurston presented at a seminar in Orsay from 1976 to 1977, it covers topics such as the space of measured foliations on a surface, t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
2022, ©2012
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| Series: | Mathematical Notes
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This book provides a detailed exposition of William Thurston's work on surface homeomorphisms, available here for the first time in English. Based on material of Thurston presented at a seminar in Orsay from 1976 to 1977, it covers topics such as the space of measured foliations on a surface, the Thurston compactification of Teichmüller space, the Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms, and dynamical properties of pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms. Thurston never published the complete proofs, so this text is the only resource for many aspects of the theory. |
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 255 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4008-3903-2 |