Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds from Graph Configurations

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	Front matterDownload pp. i–iv
	PrefaceDownload pp. vii–x
	ContentsDownload pp. xi–xv
1	Introductionspp. 1–39
2	More on manifolds and on the linking numberpp. 41–52
3	Propagatorspp. 53–63
4	The Theta invariantpp. 65–73
5	Parallelizations of 3-manifolds and Pontrjagin classespp. 75–100
6	Introduction to finite type invariants and Jacobi diagramspp. 101–129
7	First definitions of $Z$ pp. 131–152
8	Compactifications of configuration spacespp. 153–184
9	Dependence on the propagating formspp. 185–203
10	First properties of $Z$ and anomaliespp. 205–224
11	Rationalitypp. 225–244
12	A first introduction to the functor $Z^{f}$ pp. 245–265
13	More on the functor $Z^{f}$ pp. 267–284
14	Invariance of $Z^{f}$ for long tanglespp. 285–322
15	The invariant $Z$ as a holonomy for braidspp. 323–351
16	Discretizable variants of $Z^{f}$ and extensions to q-tanglespp. 353–388
17	Justifying the properties of $Z^{f}$ pp. 389–426
18	The main universality statements and their corollariespp. 427–470
19	More flexible definitions of $Z$ using pseudo-parallelizationspp. 471–499
20	Simultaneous normalization of propagating formspp. 501–518
21	Much more flexible definitions of $Z$ pp. 519–532
A	Some basic algebraic topologypp. 533–545
B	Differential forms and de Rham cohomologypp. 547–553
	Terminologypp. 555–557
	Index of notationpp. 559–561
	Summarizing the main definitions of $Z$ pp. 563–564
	Referencespp. 565–571