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Author School on High-Dimensional Manifold Topology (2001 : Trieste, Italy)

Title High-dimensional manifold topology : proceedings of the School, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 21 May-8 June 2001 / editors, F.T. Farrell, W. Lück
Published Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 501 pages) : illustrations
Contents A foliated squeezing theorem for geometric modules / A. Bartels ... [et al.] -- Conformal laplacian and conical singularities / B. Botvinnik and S. Preston -- Classifying spaces and spectra representing the K-theory of a graded C[symbol]-algebra / U. Bunke, M. Joachim and S. Stolz -- On the construction of 4k-dimensional generalized manifolds / A. Cavicchioli, F. Hegenbarth and D. Repovš -- Equivariant cellular homology and its applications / B. Chorny -- Some examples of discrete group actions on aspherical manifolds / M.W. Davis and I.J. Leary -- Reflection groups and CAT(0) complexes with exotic local structures / M.W. Davis and J. Meier -- Remarks on a conjecture of Gromov and Lawson / W. Dwyer, T. Schick and S. Stolz -- Unbounded Fredholm operators and K-theory / M. Joachim -- A. Paper for F.T. Farrell on his 60th birthday / L.E. Jones -- Chain complex invariants for group actions / L.E. Jones -- On the lower algebraic K-theory of virtually cyclic groups / D. Juan-Pineda -- The Ore condition, affiliated operators, and the lamplighter group / P.A. Linnell, W. Lück and T. Schick -- The equivariant Lefschetz fixed point theorem for proper cocompact G-manifolds / W. Lück and J. Rosenberg -- Various L2-signatures and a topological L2-signature theorem / W. Lück and T. Schick -- Stable existence of expansive exponential bundle equivalences for aspherical manifolds / P. Ontaneda -- The surgery exact sequence revisited / E.K. Pedersen -- Controlled surgery with trivial local fundamental groups / E.K. Pedersen, F. Quinn and A. Ranicki -- K-theory for proper smooth actions of totally disconnected groups / J. Sauer -- Power series over the group ring of a free group and applications to Novikov-Shubin invariants / R. Sauer -- Geometric chain homotopy equivalences between Novikov complexes / D. Schütz
Summary This book covers topics such as manifolds with positive scalar curvature, pseudo-isotopy spectrum and controlled theory, and reduction of the Novikov and Borel conjectures for aspherical complexes to aspherical manifolds
Notes At head of title: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; International Atomic Energy Agency
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Topological manifolds -- Congresses
Topology -- Congresses
Manifolds (Mathematics) -- Congresses
MATHEMATICS -- Topology.
Manifolds (Mathematics)
Topological manifolds
Topology
Topologische Mannigfaltigkeit
Topologia geométrica (congressos)
Variedades topologicas (congressos)
Topologie.
Variétés (mathématiques)
K-théorie.
Algèbres d'opérateurs.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Farrell, F. Thomas, 1941-
Lück, Wolfgang, 1957-
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
Unesco.
International Atomic Energy Agency.
ISBN 9789812704443
9812704442