Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents 3
3. Chapter 1. Introduction and statements of the results 5
4. Chapter 2. The Alexander series of a link in a rational homology sphere and some of its properties 21
5. Chapter 3. Invariance of the surgery formula under a twist homeomorphism 35
6. Chapter 4. The formula for surgeries starting from rational homology spheres 60
7. Chapter 5. The invariant A. for 3-manifolds with nonzero rank 81
8. Chapter 6. Applications and variants of the surgery formula 95
9. Appendix. More about the Alexander series 117
10. Bibliography 147
11. Index 149