Algebraic L-theory and Topological Manifolds
Algebraic L-theory and Topological Manifolds
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USDThis book presents the definitive account of the applications of this algebra to the surgery classification of topological manifolds. The central result is the identification of a manifold structure in the homotopy type of a Poincaré duality space with a local quadratic structure in the chain homotopy type of the universal cover. The difference between the homotopy types of manifolds and Poincaré duality spaces is identified with the fibre of the algebraic L-theory assembly map, which passes from local to global quadratic duality structures on chain complexes. The algebraic L-theory assembly map is used to give a purely algebraic formulation of the Novikov conjectures on the homotopy invariance of the higher signatures; any other formulation necessarily factors through this one.
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"...develops lower K- and L-theory with a view to applications in topology....Apart from the obvious interest of this text both to topologists and to K-theorists, it also serves as an introduction to the field, since there is a comprehensive survey of previous results and applications." M.E. Keating, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
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January 1993Hardback
9780521420242
372 pages
236 × 159 × 23 mm
0.655kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Summary
- Part I. Algebra:
- 1. Algebraic Poincaré complexes
- 2. Algebraic normal complexes
- 3. Algebraic bordism categories
- 4. Categories over complexes
- 5. Duality
- 6. Simply connected assembly
- 7. Derived product and Hom
- 8. Local Poincaré duality
- 9. Universal assembly
- 10. The algebraic π-π theorem
- 11. ∆-sets
- 12. Generalized homology theory
- 13. Algebraic L-spectra
- 14. The algebraic surgery exact sequence
- 15. Connective L-theory
- Part II. Topology:
- 16. The L-theory orientation of topology
- 17. The total surgery obstruction
- 18. The structure set
- 19. Geometric Poincaré complexes
- 20. The simply connected case
- 21. Transfer
- 22. Finite fundamental group
- 23. Splitting
- 24. Higher signatures
- 25. The 4-periodic theory
- 26. Surgery with coefficients
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
