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Differential Topology, Foliations, and Group Actions: Workshop on Topology January 6-17, 1992 Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio De Janeiro, Braz (Contemporary Mathematics)

Book information

Year
1994
ISBN
0821851705, 9780821851708
LCC
QA613.6 .W67 1992
Open Library ID
OL1434725M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
9 MB (9652805 bytes)
Pages
290\290
DPI
600
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This volume contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Topology held at the Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica in Rio de Janeiro in January 1992. Bringing together about one hundred mathematicians from Brazil and around the world, the workshop covered a variety of topics in differential and algebraic topology, including group actions, foliations, low-dimensional topology, and connections to differential geometry. The main concentration was on foliation theory, but there was a lively exchange on other current topics in topology. The volume contains an excellent list of open problems in foliation research, prepared with the participation of some of the top world experts in this area. Also presented here are two surveys on group actions---finite group actions and rigidity theory for Anosov actions---as well as an elementary survey of Thurston's geometric topology in dimensions 2 and 3 that would be accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

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