Lectures on differential topology / Riccardo Benedetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benedetti, R., author.

Series:

Graduate Studies in Mathematics, v. 218

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Differential topology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Summary:

"The pdf contains a draft title page, draft copyright page and a draft manuscript"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The smooth category of open subsets of Euclidean spaces The category of embedded smooth manifolds Stiefel and Grassmann manifolds The category of smooth manifolds Tautological bundles and pull-back Compact embedded smooth manifolds Cut and paste compact manifolds Transversality Morse functions and handle decompositions Bordism Smooth cobordism Applications of cobordism rings Line bundles, hypersurfaces, and cobordism Euler-Poincaré characteristic Surfaces Bordism characteristic numbers The Pontryagin-Thom construction High-dimensional manifolds On 3-manifolds On 4-manifolds Baby categories

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2021

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Benedetti, R., Lectures on differential topology /

ISBN:

9781470466732 (online)

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