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Book SynopsisPresents the proceedings from the conference on low dimensional topology held at the University of Madeira (Portugal). This work focuses on the Poincare conjecture, characterizations of $PL$-manifolds, covering quadratic forms of links and to categories in low dimensional topology that appear in connection with conformal and quantum field theory.
Table of Contents$\pi^\infty_1$ and infinite simple homotopy type in dimension 3 by V. Poenaru Cubulations mod bubble moves by L. Funar Numerical presentations of tortile categories by I. Bobtcheva and F. Quinn On Quinn's invariants of 2-dimensional CW-complexes by I. Bobtcheva The quadratic form of a link by A. Kawauchi Quantum $SU(2)$-invariants of three-manifolds associated with the trivial first cohomology class modulo two by H. Murakami An element of infinite order in TQFT-representations of mapping class groups by G. Masbaum The perturbative $SO(3)$ invariant of homology circles by T. Ohtsuki Configuration space integrals and invariants for 3-manifolds and knots by A. S. Cattaneo The multivariable Alexander polynomial for a closed braid by H. R. Morton Boundary links and h-split links by K. Kobayashi Finite type invariants of ribbon 2-knots by K. Habiro, T. Kanenobu, and A. Shima Arrangement of Markov moves for 2-dimensional braids by S. Kamada A criterion for signed unknotting number by P. Traczyk On some extensions of Artin's braid relations by H. Nencka Asymptotic behavior of energy of polygonal knots by J. O'Hara.
