Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations. (AM-88), Volume 88

Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations. (AM-88), Volume 88
Title Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations. (AM-88), Volume 88 PDF eBook
Author Robion C. Kirby
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 368
Release 2016-03-02
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 1400881501

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Since Poincaré's time, topologists have been most concerned with three species of manifold. The most primitive of these--the TOP manifolds--remained rather mysterious until 1968, when Kirby discovered his now famous torus unfurling device. A period of rapid progress with TOP manifolds ensued, including, in 1969, Siebenmann's refutation of the Hauptvermutung and the Triangulation Conjecture. Here is the first connected account of Kirby's and Siebenmann's basic research in this area. The five sections of this book are introduced by three articles by the authors that initially appeared between 1968 and 1970. Appendices provide a full discussion of the classification of homotopy tori, including Casson's unpublished work and a consideration of periodicity in topological surgery.

Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations

Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations
Title Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations PDF eBook
Author Robion C. Kirby
Publisher Annals of Mathematics Studies
Pages 355
Release 1977
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 9780691081908

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Since Poincaré's time, topologists have been most concerned with three species of manifold. The most primitive of these--the TOP manifolds--remained rather mysterious until 1968, when Kirby discovered his now famous torus unfurling device. A period of rapid progress with TOP manifolds ensued, including, in 1969, Siebenmann's refutation of the Hauptvermutung and the Triangulation Conjecture. Here is the first connected account of Kirby's and Siebenmann's basic research in this area. The five sections of this book are introduced by three articles by the authors that initially appeared between 1968 and 1970. Appendices provide a full discussion of the classification of homotopy tori, including Casson's unpublished work and a consideration of periodicity in topological surgery.

Emergent Problems in Nonlinear Systems and Control

Emergent Problems in Nonlinear Systems and Control
Title Emergent Problems in Nonlinear Systems and Control PDF eBook
Author Bijoy Ghosh
Publisher Springer
Pages 288
Release 2009-10-13
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 3642036279

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Papers in this collection partly represent the set of talks that were presented at Texas Tech University on the occasion of Daya’s memorial workshop in the year 2007. Daya had a varied interest in the field of Dynamics and Control Theory and the papers bring out the essence of his involvement in these activities. He also had a large number of collaborators and this collection represent a good fraction of them. The papers included here cover his interest in control theory. Also included are papers from application areas that we believe are of strong interest to him.

Knowledge as a Tale

Knowledge as a Tale
Title Knowledge as a Tale PDF eBook
Author Rafal Maciag
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 241
Release
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ISBN 3031698207

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Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-149), Volume 2

Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-149), Volume 2
Title Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-149), Volume 2 PDF eBook
Author Sylvain Cappell
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 446
Release 2014-09-08
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 1400865212

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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. Weinberger, B. Hughes, S. Stolz, R. Kirby, L. Taylor, and F. Quinn.

The Geometric Hopf Invariant and Surgery Theory

The Geometric Hopf Invariant and Surgery Theory
Title The Geometric Hopf Invariant and Surgery Theory PDF eBook
Author Michael Crabb
Publisher Springer
Pages 405
Release 2018-01-24
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 331971306X

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Written by leading experts in the field, this monograph provides homotopy theoretic foundations for surgery theory on higher-dimensional manifolds. Presenting classical ideas in a modern framework, the authors carefully highlight how their results relate to (and generalize) existing results in the literature. The central result of the book expresses algebraic surgery theory in terms of the geometric Hopf invariant, a construction in stable homotopy theory which captures the double points of immersions. Many illustrative examples and applications of the abstract results are included in the book, making it of wide interest to topologists. Serving as a valuable reference, this work is aimed at graduate students and researchers interested in understanding how the algebraic and geometric topology fit together in the surgery theory of manifolds. It is the only book providing such a wide-ranging historical approach to the Hopf invariant, double points and surgery theory, with many results old and new.

Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-145), Volume 1

Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-145), Volume 1
Title Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-145), Volume 1 PDF eBook
Author Sylvain Cappell
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 448
Release 2014-09-08
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 1400865190

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Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. There have been some extraordinary accomplishments in that time, which have led to enormously varied interactions with algebra, analysis, and geometry. Workers in many of these areas have often lamented the lack of a single source that surveys surgery theory and its applications. Indeed, no one person could write such a survey. The sixtieth birthday of C. T. C. Wall, one of the leaders of the founding generation of surgery theory, provided an opportunity to rectify the situation and produce a comprehensive book on the subject. Experts have written state-of-the-art reports that will be of broad interest to all those interested in topology, not only graduate students and mathematicians, but mathematical physicists as well. Contributors include J. Milnor, S. Novikov, W. Browder, T. Lance, E. Brown, M. Kreck, J. Klein, M. Davis, J. Davis, I. Hambleton, L. Taylor, C. Stark, E. Pedersen, W. Mio, J. Levine, K. Orr, J. Roe, J. Milgram, and C. Thomas.