Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. The sixtieth birthday (on December 14, 1996) of C.T.C. Wall, a leading member of the subject's founding generation, led the editors of this volume to reflect on the extraordinary accomplishments of surgery theory as well as its current enormously varied interactions with algebra, analysis, and geometry. Workers in many of these areas have often lamented the lack of a single source surveying surgery theory and its applications. Because no one person could write such a survey, the editors asked a variety of experts to report on the areas of current interest. This is the second of two volumes resulting from that collective effort. It will be useful to topologists, to other interested researchers, and to advanced students. The topics covered include current applications of surgery. Wall's finiteness obstruction, algebraic surgery, automorphisms and embeddings of manifolds, surgery theoretic methods for the study of group actions and stratified spaces, metrics of positive scalar curvature, and surgery in dimension four. In addition to the editors, the contributors are S. Ferry, M.
Weiss, B. Williams, T. Goodwillie, J. Klein, S. Weinbergen, B. Hughes, S. Stolz, R. Kirby, L. Taylor, and F. Quinn.
Edited by:
Sylvain Cappell,
Andrew Ranicki,
Jonathan Rosenberg
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 161
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 624g
ISBN: 9780691088150
ISBN 10: 0691088152
Series: Annals of Mathematics Studies
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 23 January 2001
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface vii Surgery theory today--what it is and where it's going by J. Rosenberg 3 Reflections on C. T. C. Wall's work on cobordism by J. Rosenberg 49 A survey of Wall's finiteness obstruction by S. Ferry and A. Ranicki 63 An introduction to algebraic surgery by A. Ranicki 81 Automorphiams of manifolds by M. Weiss and B. Williams 165 Spaces smooth embeddings, disjunction and surgery by T. Goodwillie, J. Klein and M. Weiss 221 Surgery and stratified spaces by B. Hughes and S. Weinberger 319 Metrics of positive scalar curvature and connections with surgery by J. Rosenberg and S. Stolz 353 A survey of 4-manifolds through the eyes of surgery by R. Kirby and L. Taylor 387 Problems in 4-dimensional topology by F. Quinn 423
Sylvain Cappell is Professor of Mathematics at New York University and has received Sloan Foundation and Guggenheim awards. Andrew Ranicki is Professor of Algebraic Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of several books, including Exact Sequences in the Algebraic Theory of Surgery (Princeton). Jonathan Rosenberg is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland and has authored books on K-theory, topology, Lie group representations, and mathematical software.
