Algebraic Topology, Aarhus 1978

Proceedings of a Symposium held at Aarhus, Denmark, August 7-12, 1978

708 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Decompositions of loop spaces and applications to exponents.- On the Bi-stable J-homomorphism.- Some homotopy classes generated by ?j.- Applications and generalizations of the approximation theorem.- Mod p decompositions of H-spaces; another approach.- Complete intersections and the Kervaire invariant.- Bounds for characteristic numbers of flat bundles.- Exotic characteristic classes of spherical fibrations.- On the (n+1)-tuple points of immersed n-spheres.- Isotopy classification of spheres in a manifold.- Homotopy rigidity of sturdy spaces.- The geometry of Mahowald orientations.- Desuspension in the symmetric L-groups.- Product formulae for surgery obstructions.- Algebraic K-theory and flat manifolds.- Topological classifications of S?2 space forms.- C*-Algebras and K-theory.- The total surgery obstruction.- On the equivalence of the two definitions of the algebraic k-theory of a topological space.- First quadrant spectral sequences in algebraic K-theory.- Algebraic K-theory of topological spaces. II.- Pseudo-free actions, I.- Semi-linear group actions on spheres: Dimension functions.- P-free linear representations of p-solvable finite groups.- Orientation preserving involutions.- Obstructions to equivariance.- Symplectic lie group actions.- Free compact group actions on products of spheres.- Three theorems in transformation groups.- Homotopy type of G spheres.- Finding framed ?p actions on exotic spheres.- The rational homotopy groups of Diff (M) and Homeo (Mn) in the stability range.- A counterexample on the oozing problem for closed manifolds.- Remarks on Novikov's conjecture and the topological-euclidean space form problem.- Isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of (k-1)-connected almost-parallelizable 2k-manifolds.- Inefficiently embedded surfaces in4-manifolds.- Local surgery: Foundations and applications.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Mathematik Topologie Algebraische Topologie
• ISBN: 9783540097211
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.1979
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: I. H. Madsen, J. L. Dupont