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TOPOLOGY VOLUME CONTENTS AND AUTHOR INDEX VOLUME 42, 2003 PII: S0040-9383(03)00041-7 PERGAMON TOPOLOGY An International Journal of Mathematics founded by J. H. C. Whitehead Editors Professor M. R. BRIDSON Professor N. J. HITCHIN The Mathematical Institute, 24-29 St. Giles, Professor F. C. KiRWAN ; pias Professor D. QUILLEN Oxford OX1 3LB, England. E-mail: [email protected] Professor U. TILLMANN Professor RALPH COHEN, Sianford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A. Professor JEAN LANNES, Centre de Mathématiques, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France Professor WOLFGANG LUck, Westfaelische Wilhelms Universitaet Miinster, Institut fiir Mathematik, Einsteinstr. 62, 48149 Miinster, Germany Professor JOHN Roe, Department of Mathematics, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A. Honorary Editorial Advisory Board V. I. ARNOL’D R. BOTT B. LAWSON S. DONALDSON I. M. GEL’FAND J.-P. SERRE J. W. MILNOR H. CARTAN G. 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All rights reserved USA mailing notice: Topology (ISSN 0040-9383) is published 6 issues per annum, in January, March, May, July, September and November by Elsevier Science Ltd. (P.O. Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Annual subscription price in the USA US$ 1400.00 (valid in North, Central and South America), including air speed delivery. Periodical postage rate paid at Jamaica, NY 11431. USA POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Topology, Publications Expediting Inc., 200 Meacham Ave, Elmont, NY 11003. AIRFREIGHT AND MAILING in the USA by Publications Expediting Inc., 200 Meacham Avenue, Elmont, NY 11003. CONTENTS NUMBER | VLADIMIR TCHERNOV: Vassiliev invariants of Legendrian, transverse, and framed knots in contact three-manifolds..................... B. vAN GEEMEN and A. VERRA: Quaternionic pryms and Hodge classes LENHARD L. NG: Computable Legendrian invariants.............. ILYA KOFMAN and XIAO-SONG LIN: Vassiliev invariants and the cubical knot complex STEFAN SCHWEDE and BROOKE SHIPLEY: Stable model categories are categories of modules SHALOM ELIAHOU, LOUIS H. KAUFFMAN and MoOrRWEN B. THISTLETH- WAITE: Infinite families of links with trivial Jones polynomial TosiAs EKHOLM and ANDRAS Sztcs: Geometric formulas for Smale invariants of codimension two immersions A. STOIMENOW: Vassiliev invariants and rational knots of unknotting number one D.J. GREEN, J.R. HUNTON and B. SCHUSTER: Chromatic characteristic classes in ordinary group cohomology DaAvID GARBER, MINA TEICHER and UZI VISHNE: 7)-classification of real arrangements with up to eight lines Cumulative Index to Vols 31—40, 1992-2001 NUMBER 2 H. AKRrouT: Singularites topologiques des systoles géneéralisées....... FRANCOIS LALONDE and DusA McDurF: Symplectic structures on fiber bundles JEFFREY STROM: Decomposition of the diagonal map Vt Ncoc San: On semi-global invariants for focus—focus singularities. . IV CONTENTS AARON ABRAMS, JASON CANTARELLA, JOSEPH H.G. FU, MOHAMMAD GHOMI and RALPH HowarbD: Circles minimize most knot energies MASAHARU Morimoto and KRZYSZTOF PAWALOWSKI: Smooth actions of HANSPETER FISCHER: Boundaries of right-angled Coxeter groups with manifold nerves DavipbE L. FERRARIO: On the equivariant Hopf theorem H. BLAINE LAWSON, PAULO LIMA-FILHO and MARIE-LOUISE MICHEL- SOHN: Algebraic cycles and the classical groups. I: real cycles CHRISTOPHER J. LEININGER: Erratum to “Surgeries on one component of the Whitehead link are virtually fibered” [Topology 41 (2002) 307-320] NUMBER 3 THOMAS G. GOODWILLIE, JOHN R. KLEIN and MICHAEL S. WEiss: A Haefliger style description of the embedding calculus tower IGNASI MUNDET I RIERA: Hamiltonian Gromov—Witten invariants AssAF LIBMAN: Universal spaces for homotopy limits of modules over coaugmented functors (I) ASSAF LIBMAN: Universal spaces for homotopy coaugmented functors (II) WILHELM SINGHOF and ELMAR VoctT: Tangential category of foliations MIHAI TIBAR: Limits of tangents and minimality of complex links KAI CIELIEBAK, IGNASI MUNDET I RIERA and DIETMAR A. SALAMON: Equivariant moduli problems, branched manifolds, and the Euler class Norio Iwase: Lusternik—Schnirelmann category of a sphere-bundle over a sphere NUMBER 4 MAX KAROUBI and CHARLES WEIBEL: Algebraic and real K-theory of Real varieties ; SIMON DONALDSON and IVAN SMITH: Lefschetz pencils and the canonical class for symplectic four-manifolds...................22000 s CONTENTS SHIGEYUKI Morita: Generators for the tautological algebra of the moduli space of curves KAREL DEKIMPE: Any virtually polycyclic group admits a NIL-affine crystallographic action JAMES MONTALDI and TADASHI TOKIEDA: Openness of momentum maps and persistence of extremal relative equilibria WILLIAM Jaco and Eric SepGwick: Decision problems in the space of I ER 3s. s.5 ne ead Vad ea eee ee bee ea eee ee JesUs GONZALEZ: A generalized Conner—Floyd conjecture and the immersion problem for low 2-torsion lens spaces Erratum CYNTHIA L. Curtis: Erratum to “An intersection theory count of the SL(2,C)-representations of the fundamental group of a 3-manifold”’ [Topology 40 (2001) 773-787] CHARLES P. BOYER, KRZYSZTOF GALICKI and MICHAEL NAKAMAYE: Sasakian geometry, homotopy spheres and positive Ricci curvature. . 981 PAUL SEIDEL: A long exact sequence for symplectic Fleer cohomology . 1003 DANIEL S. FARLEY: Finiteness and CAT(0) properties of diagram groups 1065 EMMANUEL DROR FARJOUN: Bousfield—Kan completion of homotopy Iss. ais, Sk ocak ibe We Oe bo © be a ee ee ae 1083 A. DESCHEEMAEKER and W. MaALFaIT: Preserving asphericity of virtually nilpotent spaces under P-localization JONATHAN PAKIANATHAN and ERGUN YALCIN: On nilpotent ideals in the cohomology ring of a finite group NUMBER 6 VicToR P. SNAITH: The weight-two motivic complex of equicharacteristic local fields FRANCISCO GONZALEZ-ACUNA and ARTURO RAMIREZ: Epimorphisms of knot groups onto free products VI CONTENTS NorBERT A’Campo: Monodromy of real isolated singularities MurrRAY ELDER, JON McCAMMOND and JOHN MEIER: Combinatorial conditions that imply word-hyperbolicity for 3-manifolds......... MARTIN BENDERSKY and DONALD M. Davis: A stable approach to an unstable homotopy spectral sequence T.R. RiLey: Higher connectedness of asymptotic cones BJORN JAHREN and StAWwOMIR KwasiIk: Three-dimensional surgery theory, UNil-groups and the Borel conjecture VLADIMIR S. MATVEEV: Three-dimensional manifolds having with the same geodesics........ TetsU NISHIMOTO, HiROO SHIGA and TOSHIHIRO YAMAGUCHI: Elliptic rational spaces whose cohomologies and homotopies are isomorphic. NGUYEN TIEN ZUNG: Levi decomposition of analytic Poisson structures and Lie algebroids Volume Contents and Author Index Vol 42 (2003) iee:s e Ae