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Algebraic and geometric topology : proceedings of the Symposium in Pure Mathematics of the American Mathematical Society, held at Stanford University, Stanford, California, August 2-21, 1976 / edited by R. James Milgram.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Symposium in Pure Mathematics (1976 : Stanford University), issuing body.
- Series:
- Proceedings of symposia in pure mathematics ; volume 32, part 1.
- Proceedings of symposia in pure mathematics ; volume 32, part 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Algebraic topology--Congresses.
- Algebraic topology.
- Manifolds (Mathematics)--Congresses.
- Manifolds (Mathematics).
- Global analysis (Mathematics)--Congresses.
- Global analysis (Mathematics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (421 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, 1978.
- Summary:
- Contains sections on Algebraic $K$- and $L$-theory, Surgery and its applications, Group actions.
- Contents:
- ""Table of Contents""; ""Algebraic K- and L-Theory""; ""Concordance spaces, higher simple-homotopy theory, and applications""; ""Diffeomorphisms, K[sub(2)], and analytic torsion""; ""Algebraic K-theory of topological spaces. I""; ""Metabolic and hyperbolic forms""; ""The plus construction and lifting maps from manifolds""; ""Surgery and its Applications""; ""A survey of the classifying spaces associated to spherical fiberings and surgery""; ""Remarks on normal invariants from the infinite loop space viewpoint""; ""Remarks on smoothing theory""; ""Free actions of finite groups on spheres""
- ""On the rational homotopy groups of the diffeomorphism groups of discs, spheres, and aspherical manifolds""""Group actions on disks, integral permutation representations, and the Burnside ring""; ""Automorphisms of manifolds""; ""Based free compact Lie group actions on Hilbert cubes""; ""Group actions, vector fields, and characteristic numbers""; ""Infinite regular coverings and Kleinian groups""
- Notes:
- Prepared by the American Mathematical Society with partial support from National Science Foundation grant MCS 76-01696.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 19, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-8218-9320-3
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