Cappell / Ranicki / Rosenberg Surveys on Surgery Theory, Volume 2

Papers Dedicated to C.T.C. Wall. (AM-149)
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6521-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 149, 380 Seiten

Reihe: Annals of Mathematics Studies

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Cappell, Sylvain

Ranicki, Andrew

Rosenberg, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Topologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
Surgery theory today--what it is and where it’s going by J. Rosenberg 3
Reflections on C. T. C. Wall’s work on cobordism by J. Rosenberg 49
A survey of Wall's finiteness obstruction by S. Ferry and A. Ranicki 63
An introduction to algebraic surgery by A. Ranicki 81
Automorphiams of manifolds by M. Weiss and B. Williams 165
Spaces smooth embeddings, disjunction and surgery by T. Goodwillie, J. Klein and M. Weiss 221
Surgery and stratified spaces by B. Hughes and S. Weinberger 319
Metrics of positive scalar curvature and connections with surgery by J. Rosenberg and S. Stolz 353
A survey of 4-manifolds through the eyes of surgery by R. Kirby and L. Taylor 387
Problems in 4-dimensional topology by F. Quinn 423

Über Autor(innen)

Sylvain Cappell is Professor of Mathematics at New York University and has received Sloan Foundation and Guggenheim awards. Andrew Ranicki is Professor of Algebraic Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of several books, including Exact Sequences in the Algebraic Theory of Surgery (Princeton). Jonathan Rosenberg is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland and has authored books on K-theory, topology, Lie group representations, and mathematical software.