The work of Fred Cohen: Groups, homotopy and configuration spaces

Ran Levi

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This paper gives an overview of Fred Cohen’s work and is a summary of the talk which I gave during his 60th birthday conference, held at the University of Tokyo in July 2005
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)529–546
Number of pages18
JournalGeometry & Topology Monographs
Volume13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008

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Keywords

  • configuration space
  • braid group
  • exponents in homotopy theory
  • mapping class groups
  • combinatorial group theory
  • classifying spaces

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The work of Fred Cohen : Groups, homotopy and configuration spaces. / Levi, Ran.

In: Geometry & Topology Monographs, Vol. 13, 2008, p. 529–546.

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Levi, R 2008, 'The work of Fred Cohen: Groups, homotopy and configuration spaces' Geometry & Topology Monographs, vol. 13, pp. 529–546. https://doi.org/10.2140/gtm.2008.13.529
Levi R. The work of Fred Cohen: Groups, homotopy and configuration spaces. Geometry & Topology Monographs. 2008;13:529–546. https://doi.org/10.2140/gtm.2008.13.529
Levi, Ran. / The work of Fred Cohen : Groups, homotopy and configuration spaces. In: Geometry & Topology Monographs. 2008 ; Vol. 13. pp. 529–546.
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