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Publication date: 12 September 1995

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periodicity branched covers braids cobordism knot theory Vassiliev invariants Jones polynomials Seifert surfaces knot groups Alexander modules unknotting operations companionship

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Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-01)

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