A Course on Surgery Theory /

An advanced treatment of surgery theory for graduate students and researchersSurgery theory, a subfield of geometric topology, is the study of the classifications of manifolds. A Course on Surgery Theory offers a modern look at this important mathematical discipline and some of its applications. In...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Chang, Stanley, Weinberger, Shmuel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Colección:Annals of mathematics studies ; no. 211.
Temas:
Surgery (Topology)
Chirurgie (Topologie)
MATHEMATICS > Topology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 The characterization of homotopy types
  • 2 Some calculations of L-groups
  • 3 Classical surgery theory
  • 4 Topological surgery and surgery spaces
  • 5 Applications of the assembly map
  • 6 Beyond characteristic classes
  • 7 Flat and almost flat manifolds
  • 8 Other surgery theories
  • Appendix A: Some background in algebraic topology
  • Appendix B: Geometric preliminaries
  • List of Symbols
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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