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TOPOLOGY VOLUME CONTENTS AND AUTHOR INDEX VOLUME 33, 1994 © PERGAMON TOPOLOGY An International Journal of Mathematics founded by J. H. C. Whitehead Editors Prof. B. J. BIRCH Se The Mathematical Institute, 24~29 St. Giles, Professor I. M. JAMES Dr. F. C. KIRWAN Oxford OX1 3LB, England Prof. D. QUILLEN Professor RALPH COHEN, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A. Professor F. HIRZEBRUCH, Max-Planck-Institut fiir Mathematik, Gottfried-Claren-Strasse 26, D 53 Bonn 3, West Germany Professor LARRY SIEBENMANN, Mathematique Batiment 425, Université Paris Sud, Centre D’Orsay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France Honorary Editorial Advisory Board V. I. ARNOL’D M. F. ATIYAH R. BoTT H. CARTAN I. M. GEL’FAND B. LAWSON J. W. MILNOR G. B. SEGAL H. SEIFERT J.-P. 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Copyright © 1994 Elsevier Science Ltd Published Quarterly in January, April, July and October Whilst every effort is made by the publishers and editorial board to see that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinion or statement appear in this journal, they wish to make it clear that the data and opinions appearing in the articles and advertisements herein are the sole responsibility of the contributor or advertiser concerned. Accordingly, the publishers, the editorial board and editors and their respective employees, officers and agents accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the consequences of any such inaccurate or misleading data, opinion or statement. CONTENTS NUMBER 1 WILLIAM G. Dwye_r and ERIC M. FRIEDLANDER: Topological models for arithmetic JoeL Hass and Peter Scott: Shortening curves on surfaces XIAO-SONG LIN: Finite type link invariants of 3-manifolds CHuN-Nip Lee: On stable summands of the classifying space of a compact Lie J. M. GAMBAUDO, D. SULLIVAN and C. TRESSER: Infinite cascades of braids and smooth dynamical systems OCTAVIAN CorNEA: Cone-length and Lusternik—Schnirelmann category SENICHI KAMADA: A characterization of groups of closed orientable surfaces in CHARLES FROHMAN and ANDREW Nicas: An intersection homology invariant for knots in a rational homology 3-sphere STEPHAN STOLZ: Splitting certain M Spin-module spectra V. PofNaru: Geometry “A la Gromov” for the fundamental group of a closed 3-manifold M? and the simple connectivity at infinity of M°’ CHICHEN M. Tsau: Incompressible surfaces in the knot manifolds of torus knots 197 NUMBER 2 WOLFGANG Lick: L?-Betti numbers of mapping tori and groups ANDREW SKINNER: The Word Problem in a class of non-Haken 3-manifolds MASAAKI WaDA: Twisted Alexander polynomial for finitely presentable groups .... JéROmE E. Los: Knots, braid index and dynamical type DIETRICH NOTBOHM: Homotopy uniqueness of classifying spaces of compact con- nected Lie groups at primes dividing the order of the Weyl group LuciEN GUILLOU: Théoréme de translation plane de Brouwer et généralisations du théoréme de Poincaré-Birkhoff Couin C. Apams: Toroidally alternating knots and links NGUYEN To Nuvu and LE HOoANG Tri: No Roberts space is a counter-example to Schauder’s conjecture A. M. BLOKH: Trees with snowflakes and zero entropy maps NUMBER 3 Tim D. CocHRAN and KENT E. Orr: Homology boundary links and Blanchfield forms: concordance classification and new tangle-theoretic constructions YOSHINORI NAMIKAWA: On deformations of Calabi-Yau 3-folds with terminal singularities FANG Fuquan: Embedding four manifolds in R’ J. AGuapbg, C. Broto and D. Notsoum: Homotopy classification of spaces with interesting cohomology and a conjecture of Cooke. Part I Lucas M. CHAves: A theorem of finiteness for fat bundles YONGWU Ronc: Mutation and Witten invariants KOUKI TANIYAMA: Cobordism, homotopy and homology of graphs in R? JoaN S. BIRMAN and WILLIAM W. MENasco: Special positions for essential tori in link complements H. H. GLover, G. MISLIN and Y. X1A: On the Yagita invariant of mapping class groups JOHAN L. Dupont: Characteristic classes for flat bundles and their formulas ROBIN FORMAN: Hodge theory and spectral sequences NUMBER 4 YOSUKE MIyYAMoTo: Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds with geodesic boundary Dat TAMAKI: A dual Rothenberg-steenrod spectral sequence ALAIN CONNES, DENNIS SULLIVAN and NICOLAS TELEMAN: Quasiconformal mappings, operators on Hilbert space, and local formulae for characteristic classes Ross GEOGHEGAN and ANDREW Nicas: Trace and torsion in the theory of flows.. 683 CHUN-NIP LEE: Stable homotopy type of the classifying space of virtually torsion-free groups JOHN D. McCartuy and JON G. WOLFSON: Symplectic normal connect sum S. ADAMs: Boundary amenability for word hyperbolic groups and an application to smooth dynamics of simple groups S. ADAMs: Indecomposability of equivalence relations generated by word hyperbolic groups AUTHOR INDEX Adams, C. C. 353 McCarthy, J. D. 729 Adams, S. 765, 785 Menasco, W. W. 525 Aguade, J. 455 Mislin, G. 557 Miyamoto, Y. 613 Birman, J. S. 525 ange Namikawa, Y. 429 zi Nguyen To Nhu 371 Nicas, A. 123, 683 ae Bo a m9 7” Notbohm, D. 271, 455 Cochran, T. D. 397 Connes, A. 663 Orr, K. E. 397 Cornea, O. 95 Dai Tamaki 631 Poenaru, V. 181 Dupont, J. L. 575 Dwyer, W.G. 1 Scott, P. 25 Skinner, A. 215 Forman, R. 591 Stolz, S. 159 Friedlander, E. M. 1 Sullivan, D. 85, 66 Frohman, C. 123 Fuquan, F. 447 Taniyama, K. 509 Gambaudo, J. M. 85 Teleman, N. 663 Geoghegan, R. 683 Tres: ser, 3 C. 85 Glover, H. H. 557 Tsau, C. M. 197 Guillou, L. 331 Wada, M. 241 fas. J. 25 Wolfson, J. G. 729 Kamada, S. 113 Xia, Y. 557 Le Hoang Tri 371 Hmoteng in 4 Loa, F%. 2357 Liick, W. 203 Yongwu Rong 499 Printed in Great Britain by BPC Wheatons Ltd, Exeter