Surveys on Surgery Theory : Volume 2. Papers Dedicated to C.T.C. Wall. (AM-149).

Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. The sixtieth birthday (on December 14, 1996) of C.T.C. Wall, a leading member of the subject's founding generation, led the editors of this volume to reflect on the extraordinary accomplishments...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cappell, Sylvain
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Surgery.
Chirurgie.
surgery (health care function)
Surgery
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface / Cappell, Sylvain / Ranicki, Andrew / Rosenberg, Jonathan
  • Surgery theory today
  • what it is and where it's going / Rosenberg, Jonathan
  • Reflections on C. T. C. Wall's work on cobordism / Rosenberg, Jonathan
  • A survey of Wall's finiteness obstruction / Ferry, Steve / Ranicki, Andrew
  • An introduction to algebraic surgery / Ranicki, Andrew
  • Automorphisms of manifolds / Weiss, Michael / Williams, Bruce
  • Spaces of smooth embeddings, disjunction and surgery / Goodwillie, Thomas G. / Klein, John R. / Weiss, Michael S.
  • Surgery theoretic methods in group actions / Cappell, Sylvain / Weinbergert, Shmuel
  • Surgery and stratified spaces / Hughes, Bruce / Weinberger, Shmuel
  • Metrics of positive scalar curvature and connections with surgery / Rosenberg, Jonathan / Stolz, Stephan
  • A survey of 4-manifolds through the eyes of surgery / Kirby, Robion C. / Taylor, Laurence R.
  • Problems in 4-dimensional topology / Quinn, Frank

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