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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quinn, Frank, editor.

Series:

Annals of mathematics studies ; no. 138.

Annals of Mathematics Studies ; 320

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Topology--Congresses.

Topology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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, calculations of algebraic K-theory, a result on analytic structures on Lie group actions, a presentation of the significance of Dirac operators in smoothing theory, a discussion of the stable topology of 4-manifolds, an answer to the famous question about symmetries of simply connected manifolds, and a fresh perspective on the topological classification of linear transformations. The contributors include A. Adem, A. H. Assadi, M. Bökstedt, S. E. Cappell, R. Charney, M. W. Davis, P. J. Eccles, M. H. Freedman, I. Hambleton, J. C. Hausmann, S. Illman, G. Katz, M. Kreck, W. Lück, I. Madsen, R. J. Milgram, J. Morava, E. K. Pedersen, V. Puppe, F. Quinn, A. Ranicki, J. L. Shaneson, D. Sullivan, P. Teichner, Z. Wang, and S. Weinberger.

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 / Adem, Alejandro / Milgram, R. James

Algebraic Geometric Invariants for Homotopy Actions / Assadi, Amir H.

Algebraic K-Theory of Local Number Fields: The Unramified Case / Bokstedt, M. / Madsen, I.

The Mapping Cone and Cylinder of a Stratified Map / Cappell, Sylvain E. / Shaneson, Julius L.

Replacement of Fixed Sets and of their Normal Representations in Transformation Groups of Manifolds / Cappell, Sylvain / Weinberger, Shmuel

Finite K (π, 1)s for Artin Groups / Charney, Ruth / Davis, Michael W.

Double Point Manifolds of Immersions of Spheres in Euclidean Space / Eccles, Peter J.

Controlled Linear Algebra / Freedman, Michael H. / Wang, Zhenghan

Non-Linear Similarity Revisited / Hambleton, Ian / Pedersen, Erik K.

On the Vietoris-Rips complexes and a Cohomology Theory for metric spaces / Hausmann, Jean-Claude

Every Proper Smooth Action of a Lie Group is Equivalent to a Real Analytic Action: A Contribution to Hilbert's Fifth Problem / Illman, Sören

Formal Deformations of Equivariant Genera, Fixed Point Formula and Universal Symmetry Blocks / Katz, Gabriel

Stable Prime Decompositions of Four-Manifolds / Kreck, Matthias / Luck, Wolfgang / Teichner, Peter

Smooth Correspondences / Morava, Jack

Simply Connected 6-Dimensional Manifolds with Little Symmetry and Algebras with Small Tangent Space / Puppe, Volker

Speculations on Gromov Convergence of Stratified Sets, and Riemannian Volume Collapse / Quinn, Frank

Bordism of Automorphisms of Manifolds. From the Algebraic L-Theory Point of View

Exterior d, the Local Degree, and Smoothability / Sullivan, Dennis

Contributors

Notes:

Conference held Princeton, March 1994.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400882588

1400882583

OCLC:

954123881