
The Geometric Hopf Invariant and Surgery Theory
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 6. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 397 pages
978-3-319-89061-6 (ISBN)
Description
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, withmany results old and new.More details
Product info
Previously published in hardcover
Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 farbige Abbildung
XVI, 397 p. 1 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
628 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-89061-6 (9783319890616)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-71306-9
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Michael Crabb | Andrew Ranicki
The Geometric Hopf Invariant and Surgery Theory
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Content
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.