The Novikov conjecture

Autori

• Matthias Kreck

Parametri

• Matematica
• Oberwolfach seminars

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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.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2005

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