Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Chapter I: Representation Spaces 1
6. Chapter II: Heegard Decompositions and Stable Bquivalence 33
7. Chapter III: Representation Spaces Associated to Heegard Decompositions 47
8. Chapter IV; Casson’s Invariant for Oriented Homology 3-spheres 63
9. Chapter V: Casson’s invariant for knots in homology 3-spheres 80
10. Chapter VI: The Topology of the Space of Representations 150
11. References 181