The Novikov Conjecture
Download or Read eBook The Novikov Conjecture PDF written by Matthias Kreck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Matthias Kreck |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2005-12-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9783764373153 |
| ISBN-13 | : 3764373156 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Novikov Conjecture by : Matthias Kreck
Book excerpt: These lecture notes contain a guided tour to the Novikov Conjecture and related conjectures due to Baum-Connes, Borel and Farrell-Jones. They begin with basics about higher signatures, Whitehead torsion and the s-Cobordism Theorem. Then an introduction to surgery theory and a version of the assembly map is presented. Using the solution of the Novikov conjecture for special groups some applications to the classification of low dimensional manifolds are given.
