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Book Synopsis Geometry and Topology of Manifolds by : Hans U. Boden
Download or read book Geometry and Topology of Manifolds written by Hans U. Boden and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains expository papers that give an up-to-date account of recent developments and open problems in the geometry and topology of manifolds, along with several research articles that present new results appearing in published form for the first time. The unifying theme is the problem of understanding manifolds in low dimensions, notably in dimensions three and four, and the techniques include algebraic topology, surgery theory, Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten gauge theory, Heegaard Floer homology, contact and symplectic geometry, and Gromov-Witten invariants. The articles collected for this volume were contributed by participants of the Conference "Geometry and Topology of Manifolds" held at McMaster University on May 14-18, 2004 and are representative of the many excellent talks delivered at the conference.
Book Synopsis Lectures on Three-Manifold Topology by : William H. Jaco
Download or read book Lectures on Three-Manifold Topology written by William H. Jaco and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1980-12-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manuscript is a detailed presentation of the ten lectures given by the author at the NSF Regional Conference on Three-Manifold Topology, held October 1977, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The purpose of the conference was to present the current state of affairs in three-manifold topology and to integrate the classical results with the many recent advances and new directions.
Book Synopsis Riemannian Topology and Geometric Structures on Manifolds by : Krzysztof Galicki
Download or read book Riemannian Topology and Geometric Structures on Manifolds written by Krzysztof Galicki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riemannian Topology and Structures on Manifolds results from a similarly entitled conference held on the occasion of Charles P. Boyer’s 65th birthday. The various contributions to this volume discuss recent advances in the areas of positive sectional curvature, Kähler and Sasakian geometry, and their interrelation to mathematical physics, especially M and superstring theory. Focusing on these fundamental ideas, this collection presents review articles, original results, and open problems of interest.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Second Conference on Compact Transformation Groups. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1971 by : H. T Ku
Download or read book Proceedings of the Second Conference on Compact Transformation Groups. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1971 written by H. T Ku and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Piecewise Linear Structures On Topological Manifolds by : Yuli Rudyak
Download or read book Piecewise Linear Structures On Topological Manifolds written by Yuli Rudyak and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of triangulations of topological spaces has always been at the root of geometric topology. Among the most studied triangulations are piecewise linear triangulations of high-dimensional topological manifolds. Their study culminated in the late 1960s-early 1970s in a complete classification in the work of Kirby and Siebenmann. It is this classification that we discuss in this book, including the celebrated Hauptvermutung and Triangulation Conjecture.The goal of this book is to provide a readable and well-organized exposition of the subject, which would be suitable for advanced graduate students in topology. An exposition like this is currently lacking.
Book Synopsis The Hauptvermutung Book by : A.A. Ranicki
Download or read book The Hauptvermutung Book written by A.A. Ranicki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hauptvermutung is the conjecture that any two triangulations of a poly hedron are combinatorially equivalent. The conjecture was formulated at the turn of the century, and until its resolution was a central problem of topology. Initially, it was verified for low-dimensional polyhedra, and it might have been expected that furt her development of high-dimensional topology would lead to a verification in all dimensions. However, in 1961 Milnor constructed high-dimensional polyhedra with combinatorially inequivalent triangulations, disproving the Hauptvermutung in general. These polyhedra were not manifolds, leaving open the Hauptvermu tung for manifolds. The development of surgery theory led to the disproof of the high-dimensional manifold Hauptvermutung in the late 1960's. Unfortunately, the published record of the manifold Hauptvermutung has been incomplete, as was forcefully pointed out by Novikov in his lecture at the Browder 60th birthday conference held at Princeton in March 1994. This volume brings together the original 1967 papers of Casson and Sulli van, and the 1968/1972 'Princeton notes on the Hauptvermutung' of Armstrong, Rourke and Cooke, making this work physically accessible. These papers include several other results which have become part of the folklore but of which proofs have never been published. My own contribution is intended to serve as an intro duction to the Hauptvermutung, and also to give an account of some more recent developments in the area. In preparing the original papers for publication, only minimal changes of punctuation etc.
Book Synopsis Algebraic L-theory and Topological Manifolds by : Andrew Ranicki
Download or read book Algebraic L-theory and Topological Manifolds written by Andrew Ranicki and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-12-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assuming no previous acquaintance with surgery theory and justifying all the algebraic concepts used by their relevance to topology, Dr Ranicki explains the applications of quadratic forms to the classification of topological manifolds, in a unified algebraic framework.
Book Synopsis Handbook of the History of General Topology by : C.E. Aull
Download or read book Handbook of the History of General Topology written by C.E. Aull and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first one of a work in several volumes, treating the history of the development of topology. The work contains papers which can be classified into 4 main areas. Thus there are contributions dealing with the life and work of individual topologists, with specific schools of topology, with research in topology in various countries, and with the development of topology in different periods. The work is not restricted to topology in the strictest sense but also deals with applications and generalisations in a broad sense. Thus it also treats, e.g., categorical topology, interactions with functional analysis, convergence spaces, and uniform spaces. Written by specialists in the field, it contains a wealth of information which is not available anywhere else.
Book Synopsis Embeddings in Manifolds by : Robert J. Daverman
Download or read book Embeddings in Manifolds written by Robert J. Daverman and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A topological embedding is a homeomorphism of one space onto a subspace of another. The book analyzes how and when objects like polyhedra or manifolds embed in a given higher-dimensional manifold. The main problem is to determine when two topological embeddings of the same object are equivalent in the sense of differing only by a homeomorphism of the ambient manifold. Knot theory is the special case of spheres smoothly embedded in spheres; in this book, much more general spaces and much more general embeddings are considered. A key aspect of the main problem is taming: when is a topological embedding of a polyhedron equivalent to a piecewise linear embedding? A central theme of the book is the fundamental role played by local homotopy properties of the complement in answering this taming question. The book begins with a fresh description of the various classic examples of wild embeddings (i.e., embeddings inequivalent to piecewise linear embeddings). Engulfing, the fundamental tool of the subject, is developed next. After that, the study of embeddings is organized by codimension (the difference between the ambient dimension and the dimension of the embedded space). In all codimensions greater than two, topological embeddings of compacta are approximated by nicer embeddings, nice embeddings of polyhedra are tamed, topological embeddings of polyhedra are approximated by piecewise linear embeddings, and piecewise linear embeddings are locally unknotted. Complete details of the codimension-three proofs, including the requisite piecewise linear tools, are provided. The treatment of codimension-two embeddings includes a self-contained, elementary exposition of the algebraic invariants needed to construct counterexamples to the approximation and existence of embeddings. The treatment of codimension-one embeddings includes the locally flat approximation theorem for manifolds as well as the characterization of local flatness in terms of local homotopy properties.
Book Synopsis Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations. (AM-88), Volume 88 by : Robion C. Kirby
Download or read book Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations. (AM-88), Volume 88 written by Robion C. Kirby and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Poincaré's time, topologists have been most concerned with three species of manifold. The most primitive of these--the TOP manifolds--remained rather mysterious until 1968, when Kirby discovered his now famous torus unfurling device. A period of rapid progress with TOP manifolds ensued, including, in 1969, Siebenmann's refutation of the Hauptvermutung and the Triangulation Conjecture. Here is the first connected account of Kirby's and Siebenmann's basic research in this area. The five sections of this book are introduced by three articles by the authors that initially appeared between 1968 and 1970. Appendices provide a full discussion of the classification of homotopy tori, including Casson's unpublished work and a consideration of periodicity in topological surgery.
Book Synopsis Low-Dimensional Topology by : R. Brown
Download or read book Low-Dimensional Topology written by R. Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-05-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of the proceedings of a conference held at the University College of North Wales (Bangor) in July of 1979. It assembles research papers which reflect diverse currents in low-dimensional topology. The topology of 3-manifolds, hyperbolic geometry and knot theory emerge as major themes. The inclusion of surveys of work in these areas should make the book very useful to students as well as researchers.
Book Synopsis Lectures on Field Theory and Topology by : Daniel S. Freed
Download or read book Lectures on Field Theory and Topology written by Daniel S. Freed and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These lectures recount an application of stable homotopy theory to a concrete problem in low energy physics: the classification of special phases of matter. While the joint work of the author and Michael Hopkins is a focal point, a general geometric frame of reference on quantum field theory is emphasized. Early lectures describe the geometric axiom systems introduced by Graeme Segal and Michael Atiyah in the late 1980s, as well as subsequent extensions. This material provides an entry point for mathematicians to delve into quantum field theory. Classification theorems in low dimensions are proved to illustrate the framework. The later lectures turn to more specialized topics in field theory, including the relationship between invertible field theories and stable homotopy theory, extended unitarity, anomalies, and relativistic free fermion systems. The accompanying mathematical explanations touch upon (higher) category theory, duals to the sphere spectrum, equivariant spectra, differential cohomology, and Dirac operators. The outcome of computations made using the Adams spectral sequence is presented and compared to results in the condensed matter literature obtained by very different means. The general perspectives and specific applications fuse into a compelling story at the interface of contemporary mathematics and theoretical physics.
Book Synopsis Lectures on the Topology of 3-Manifolds by : Nikolai Saveliev
Download or read book Lectures on the Topology of 3-Manifolds written by Nikolai Saveliev and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress in low-dimensional topology has been very quick in the last three decades, leading to the solutions of many difficult problems. Among the earlier highlights of this period was Casson's λ-invariant that was instrumental in proving the vanishing of the Rohlin invariant of homotopy 3-spheres. The proof of the three-dimensional Poincaré conjecture has rendered this application moot but hardly made Casson's contribution less relevant: in fact, a lot of modern day topology, including a multitude of Floer homology theories, can be traced back to his λ-invariant. The principal goal of this book, now in its second revised edition, remains providing an introduction to the low-dimensional topology and Casson's theory; it also reaches out, when appropriate, to more recent research topics. The book covers some classical material, such as Heegaard splittings, Dehn surgery, and invariants of knots and links. It then proceeds through the Kirby calculus and Rohlin's theorem to Casson's invariant and its applications, and concludes with a brief overview of recent developments. The book will be accessible to graduate students in mathematics and theoretical physics familiar with some elementary algebraic and differential topology, including the fundamental group, basic homology theory, transversality, and Poincaré duality on manifolds.
Book Synopsis Algebraic Topology by : Arunas Liulevicius
Download or read book Algebraic Topology written by Arunas Liulevicius and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Geometry and Topology Down Under by : Craig D. Hodgson
Download or read book Geometry and Topology Down Under written by Craig D. Hodgson and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of the conference Geometry & Topology Down Under, held July 11-22, 2011, at the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, in honour of Hyam Rubinstein. The main topic of the book is low-dimensional geometry and topology. It includes both survey articles based on courses presented at the conferences and research articles devoted to important questions in low-dimensional geometry. Together, these contributions show how methods from different fields of mathematics contribute to the study of 3-manifolds and Gromov hyperbolic groups. It also contains a list of favorite problems by Hyam Rubinstein.
Book Synopsis An Alpine Bouquet of Algebraic Topology by : Jérôme Scherer
Download or read book An Alpine Bouquet of Algebraic Topology written by Jérôme Scherer and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the Alpine Algebraic and Applied Topology Conference, held from August 15–21, 2016, in Saas-Almagell, Switzerland. The papers cover a broad range of topics in modern algebraic topology, including the theory of highly structured ring spectra, infinity-categories and Segal spaces, equivariant homotopy theory, algebraic -theory and topological cyclic, periodic, or Hochschild homology, intersection cohomology, and symplectic topology.
Book Synopsis Piecewise Linear Concordances and Isotopies by : Kenneth C. Millett
Download or read book Piecewise Linear Concordances and Isotopies written by Kenneth C. Millett and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1974 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geometrical techniques in piecewise linear topology are extended to the situation where one has a projection which must be preserved. These include general position, sunny collapsing and engulfing. They are employed to study the relative homotopy groups of the simplicial spaces of concordances and isotopies and, consequently, five a proff of a parameterized version of Hudson's concordance implies isotopy theorem.
