Prospects in Topology (AM-138), Volume 138 : : Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of William Browder. (AM-138) / / ed. by Frank Quinn.

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• MitwirkendeR: Adem, Alejandro,; Assadi, Amir H.,; Bokstedt, M.,; Cappell, Sylvain E.,; Cappell, Sylvain,; Charney, Ruth,; Davis, Michael W.,; Eccles, Peter J.,; Freedman, Michael H.,; Hambleton, Ian,; Hausmann, Jean-Claude,; Illman, Sören,; Katz, Gabriel,; Kreck, Matthias,; Luck, Wolfgang,; Madsen, I.,; Milgram, R. James,; Morava, Jack,; Pedersen, Erik K.,; Puppe, Volker,; Quinn, Frank,; Shaneson, Julius L.,; Sullivan, Dennis,; Teichner, Peter,; Wang, Zhenghan,; Weinberger, Shmuel,
• HerausgeberIn: Quinn, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Annals of Mathematics Studies ; 138
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

This collection brings together influential papers by mathematicians exploring the research frontiers of topology, one of the most important developments of modern mathematics. The papers cover a wide range of topological specialties, including tools for the analysis of group actions on manifolds, c...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Program of the Conference
• Mathematical descendants of William Browder
• The Mod 2 Cohomology Rings of Rank 3 Simple Groups are Cohen-Macaulay
• Algebraic Geometric Invariants for Homotopy Actions
• Algebraic K-Theory of Local Number Fields: The Unramified Case
• The Mapping Cone and Cylinder of a Stratified Map
• Replacement of Fixed Sets and of their Normal Representations in Transformation Groups of Manifolds
• Finite K (π, 1)s for Artin Groups
• Double Point Manifolds of Immersions of Spheres in Euclidean Space
• Controlled Linear Algebra
• Non-Linear Similarity Revisited
• On the Vietoris-Rips complexes and a Cohomology Theory for metric spaces
• Every Proper Smooth Action of a Lie Group is Equivalent to a Real Analytic Action: A Contribution to Hilbert's Fifth Problem
• Formal Deformations of Equivariant Genera, Fixed Point Formula and Universal Symmetry Blocks
• Stable Prime Decompositions of Four-Manifolds
• Smooth Correspondences
• Simply Connected 6-Dimensional Manifolds with Little Symmetry and Algebras with Small Tangent Space
• Speculations on Gromov Convergence of Stratified Sets, and Riemannian Volume Collapse
• Bordism of Automorphisms of Manifolds. From the Algebraic L-Theory Point of View
• Exterior d, the Local Degree, and Smoothability
• Contributors