Topology of Low-Dimensional Manifolds: Proceedings of the Second Sussex Conference, 1977 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 722, Band 722)

A representation theorem for fibered knots and their monodromy maps.- Homogeneity of S2 "T2.- A link calculus for 4-manifolds.- Nice spines of 3-manifolds.- Introducting doodles.- Generators for the mapping class group.- On the mapping class group of simple 3-manifolds.- Shake " Slice knots.- Signatures of iterated torus knots.- Some homology 3-spheres which bound acyclic 4-manifolds.- A criterion for an embedded surface in ?3 to be unknotted.- An elliptical path from parabolic representations to hyperbolic structures.- Presentations and the trivial group.- On the genera of knots.