Geometry of Low-Dimensional Manifolds

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Contributors
Names of Participants
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part I. Four-Manifolds and Algebraic Surfaces:
1. Yang-Mills invariants of four-manifolds S. K. Donaldson
2. On the topology of algebraic surfaces Robert E. Gompf
3. The topology of algebraic surfaces with q=pg=0 Dieter Kotschick
4. On the homeomorphism classification of smooth knotted surfaces in the 4-sphere Matthias Kreck
5. Flat algebraic manifolds F. A. E. Johnson
Part II: Floer's Instanton Homology Groups:
6. Instanton homology, surgery and knots Andreas Floer
7. Instanton homology Andreas Floer, notes by Dieter Knotschick
8. Invariants for homology 3-spheres Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern
9. On the Floer homology of Seifert fibered homology 3-spheres Christian Okonek
10. Za-invariant SU(2) instantons over the four-sphere Mikio Furuta
Part III. Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics
11. Skyrme fields and instantons N. S. Manton
12. Representations of braid groups and operators coupled to monopoles Ralph E. Cohen and John D. S. Jones
13. Extremal immersions and the extended frame bundle D. H. Hartley and R. W. Tucker
14. Minimal surfaces in quaternionic symmetric spaces F. E. Burstall
15. Three-dimensional Einstein-Weyl geometry K. P. Tod
16. Harmonic Morphisms, conformal foliations and Seifert fibre spaces John C. Wood.

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