Quinn Prospects in Topology (AM-138), Volume 138

Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of William Browder. (AM-138)
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-8258-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 138, 340 Seiten

Reihe: Annals of Mathematics Studies

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Quinn, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Topologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Program of the conference

Mathematical descendants of William Browder

The mod 2 cohomology rings of rank 3 simple group are Cohen Macaulay 3

Algebraic geometric invariants for homotopy actions 13

Algebraic K-theory of local number fields: the unramified case 28

The mapping cone and cylinder of a stratified map 58

Replacement of fixed sets and of their normal representations in transformation groups of manifolds 67

Finite K ([pi],1)s for Artin groups 110

Double point manifolds of immersions of spheres in Euclidean space 125

Controlled linear algebra 138

Non-linear similarity revisited 157

On the Vietoris-Rips complexes and a cohomology theory for metric spaces 175

Every proper smooth action of a Lie group is equivalent to a real analytic action: a contribution to Hilbert's fifth problem 189

Formal deformations of equivariant genera, fixed point formula and universal symmetry blocks 221

Stable prime decompositions of four-manifolds 251

Smooth correspondences 270

Simply connected 6-dimensional manifolds with little symmetry and algebras with small tangent space 283

Speculations on Grommov convergence of stratified sets, and Riemannian volume collapse 303

Bordism of automorphisms of manifolds from the algebraic L-theory point of view 314

Exterior d, the local degree, and smoothability 328

Contributors 339

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Quinn is University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.