A Course on Surgery Theory : (AMS-211)

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...
Ausführliche Beschreibung

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 Ausführliche Beschreibung