The enhanced Milnor number in higher dimensions

  • Walter D. Neumann
  • Lee Rudolph
Linking Phenomena And 3-Dimensional Topology
Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNM, volume 1350)

Keywords

Homotopy Class Lower Triangular Matrix Grothendieck Group Fibered Link Milnor Number 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Walter D. Neumann
    • 1
    • 2
  • Lee Rudolph
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of MathematicsUniversity of MarylandCollege Park
  2. 2.Department of MathematicsOhio State UniversityColumbus
  3. 3.Department of MathematicsClark UniversityWorcester

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