"Algebraic Topology, Aarhus 1978" ed. by J. L. Dupont, I. H. Madsen
Lecture Notes in Mathematics, volume 763. Proceedings of a Symposium held at Aarhus, Denmark, August 7-12, 1978

Sğringår-Verlag | 1979 | ISBN: 038709721Õ 354009721Õ 9783540097211 | 722 pages | djvu | 4 MB
This issue contains manuscripts, structured as a series of plenary talks together with special sessions on Homotopy Theory, Characteristic Classes and Bordism, Algebraic K- and L-Theory, Transformation Groups and Geometry of Manifolds.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
HOMOTOPY THEORY:
Decomposition of loop space and application to exponents
On the bi-stable J-homomorphism
Some, homotopy classes gemmated by nj
Applications and generalization of the approximation theorem
Mod p decompositions of H-spaces; Another approach

CHARACTERISTIC CLASSES AND BORDISM:
Complete intersections and the Kervaire invariant
Bounds for characteristic, numbers of flat bundles
Exotic characteristic classes of spherical fibrations
On the [n+1)-tuple points of immersed n-spheres
Isotopy classification of spheres in a manifold
Homotopy rigidity of sturdy spaces
The geometry of Mahoouald orientations

ALGEBRAIC K- AND L-THEORY:
Desuspension In the symmetric L-groups
Product formulae for surgery obstructions
Algebraic K-theory and flat manifolds
Topological classifications of SL9(Fp) space forms
C*-algebras and K-theory
The total surgery obstruction
On the equivalence of the two definitions of the algebraic K-theory of a topological space
First quadrant spectral sequences In algebraic K-Theory
Algebraic K-theory of topological spaces II

TRANSFORMATION GROUPS:
Pseudo-free actions I
Semi-linear Group Actions on Spheres: Dimension functions
P-free linear representations of P-solvable finite groups
Orientation preserving Involutions
Obstructions to equlvarlance
Symplectic Lie Group Actions
Free compact group actions on products of spheres
Three theorems In transformation groups
Homotopy type of G spheres
Finding framed Enactions on exotic spheres

GEOMETRY OF MANIFOLDS:
The rational homotopy groups of Diff (M) and Homeo(Mn) In the stability range
A counterexample on the oozing problem for closed manifolds
Remarks on Novikov's conjecture and the Topological-Euclidian Space Form Problem
Isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of (k-1)- connected almost - parallelizable 2k-manifolds
Inefficiently embedded surfaces In 4-manifolds
Local Surgery: foundations and Applications