Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-149), Volume 2 : : Papers Dedicated to C.T.C. Wall. (AM-149) / / ed. by Sylvain Cappell, Jonathan Rosenberg, Andrew Ranicki.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Annals of Mathematics eBook-Package 1940-2020
• MitwirkendeR: Cappell, Sylvain,; Ferry, Steve,; Goodwillie, Thomas G.,; Hughes, Bruce,; Kirby, Robion C.,; Klein, John R.,; Quinn, Frank,; Ranicki, Andrew,; Rosenberg, Jonathan,; Stolz, Stephan,; Taylor, Laurence R.,; Weinberger, Shmuel,; Weinbergert, Shmuel,; Weiss, Michael S.,; Weiss, Michael,; Williams, Bruce,
• HerausgeberIn: Cappell, Sylvain,; Ranicki, Andrew,; Rosenberg, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Annals of Mathematics Studies ; 149
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Surgery theory today - what it is and where it's going
• Reflections on C. T. C. Wall's work on cobordism
• A survey of Wall's finiteness obstruction
• An introduction to algebraic surgery
• Automorphisms of manifolds
• Spaces of smooth embeddings, disjunction and surgery
• Surgery theoretic methods in group actions
• Surgery and stratified spaces
• Metrics of positive scalar curvature and connections with surgery
• A survey of 4-manifolds through the eyes of surgery
• Problems in 4-dimensional topology