Higher-Dimensional Knots According to Michel Kervaire
Françoise Michel
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, FranceClaude Weber
Université de Genève, Switzerland

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| FrontmatterDownload pp. i–iv | |
| PrefaceDownload p. v | |
| ContentsDownload pp. vii–ix | |
| 1 | IntroductionDownload pp. 1–7 |
| 2 | Some tools of differential topologypp. 9–14 |
| 3 | The Kervaire–Milnor study of homotopy spherespp. 15–26 |
| 4 | Differentiable knots in codimension pp. 27–31 |
| 5 | The fundamental group of a knot complementpp. 33–42 |
| 6 | Knot modulespp. 43–60 |
| 7 | Odd-dimensional simple linkspp. 61–67 |
| 8 | Knot cobordismpp. 69–74 |
| 9 | Singularities of complex hypersurfacespp. 75–89 |
| A | Linking numbers and signspp. 91–92 |
| B | Existence of Seifert hypersurfacespp. 93–94 |
| C | Open book decompositionspp. 95–97 |
| D | Handlebodies and plumbingspp. 99–107 |
| E | Homotopy spheres embedded in codimension 2 and the Kervaire–Arf–Robertello–Levine invariantpp. 109–113 |
| F | Figurespp. 115–119 |
| Bibliographypp. 121–128 | |
| Index of Notationp. 129 | |
| Index of Quoted Theoremspp. 131–132 | |
| Index of Terminologypp. 133–134 |