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The Geometric Hopf Invariant and Surgery Theory [electronic resource] / by Michael Crabb, Andrew Ranicki.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Springer Monographs in MathematicsPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017Description: XVI, 397 p. 1 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319713069
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 514.2 23
LOC classification:
  • QA612-612.8
Online resources:
Contents:
1 The difference construction -- 2 Umkehr maps and inner product spaces -- 3 Stable homotopy theory -- 4 Z_2-equivariant homotopy and bordism theory -- 5 The geometric Hopf invariant -- 6 The double point theorem -- 7 The -equivariant geometric Hopf invariant -- 8 Surgery obstruction theory -- A The homotopy Umkehr map -- B Notes on Z2-bordism -- C The geometric Hopf invariant and double points (2010) -- References -- Index.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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. .
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1 The difference construction -- 2 Umkehr maps and inner product spaces -- 3 Stable homotopy theory -- 4 Z_2-equivariant homotopy and bordism theory -- 5 The geometric Hopf invariant -- 6 The double point theorem -- 7 The -equivariant geometric Hopf invariant -- 8 Surgery obstruction theory -- A The homotopy Umkehr map -- B Notes on Z2-bordism -- C The geometric Hopf invariant and double points (2010) -- References -- Index.

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. .

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