A Course on Surgery Theory : : (AMS-211) /

A Course on Surgery Theory : : (AMS-211) / / Stanley Chang, Shmuel Weinberger.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Chang, Stanley,
Weinberger, Shmuel,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Annals of Mathematics Studies ; 365
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.) :; 14 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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