ENGLISH

The computation of fixed points and applications

By Michael J Todd

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1976
ISBN
0387076859, 9780387076850, 3540076859, 9783540076858
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
860 kB (881046 bytes)
Series
Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems, Mathematical economics., 124
Pages
137\137
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2012-12-29 17:00:00

Description

This is the first treatment in book form of the applications of the lower K- and L-groups (which are the components of the Grothendieck groups of modules and quadratic forms over polynomial extension rings) to the topology of manifolds such as Euclidean spaces, via Whitehead torsion and the Wall finiteness and surgery obstructions. The author uses only elementary constructions and gives a full algebraic account of the groups involved; of particular note is an algebraic treatment of geometric transversality for maps to the circle

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