Homotopy Theory: Proceedings of the Durham Symposium 1985
This 1987 volume presents a collection of papers given at the 1985 Durham Symposium on homotopy theory. They survey recent developments in the subject including localisation and periodicity, computational complexity, and the algebraic K-theory of spaces.
Product details
October 1987Paperback
9780521339469
256 pages
228 × 152 × 16 mm
0.375kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. On the computational complexity of rational homotopy D. J. Anick
- 2. Segal's Burnside ring conjecture and the homotopy limit problem Gunnar Carlsson
- 3. Pseudo-isotopies, K-theory, and homotopy theory Ralph L. Cohen
- 4. Global methods in homotopy theory Michael J. Hopkins
- 5. Sur la cohomologie modulo p des p-groupes Abeliens elementaires J. Lannes
- 6. A view of some aspects of unstable homotopy theory since 1950 J. C. Moore and J. A. Neisendorfer
- 7. Recent progress in stable splittings Stewart Priddy
- 8. Localization and periodicity in homotopy theory Douglas C. Ravenel
- 9. Symbolic calculus: a 19th century approach to MU and BP Nigel Ray
- 10. An outline of how manifolds relate to algebraic K-theory Friedhelm Waldhausen.