Casson-Lin's invariant and Floer homology

Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 851-877

  Li, Weiping ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Braid; Floer homology; Maslov index; Signature of a knot; Symplectic diffeomorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0642310191     PISSN: 02182165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218216597000480     Document Type: Article

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