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Geometry on Poincare Spaces - Brossura

Hausmann, Jean-Claude; Vogel, Pierre

 
9780691021133: Geometry on Poincare Spaces

Sinossi

A Poincaré space is a topological space satisfying Poincaré duality, as a compact manifold. This book explains how to perform, in the category of Poincaré spaces, a certain number of geometric constructions which are usual in the world of manifolds (surgery, handle techniques, transversality, etc.). These constructions turn out to be useful in solving manifold problems, such as embeddings and group actions. This is the first book to be published on this subject. The methods are based on standard surgery theory and elementary homotopy arguments.

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Contenuti

Introduction 1
1 Homology Theories Over RP[actual symbol not reproducible]
A The category over RP [actual symbol not reproducible] 9
B Homology with local coefficients 11
C Homology theories over RP[actual symbol not reproducible] with coefficients in a module 14
D Examples 19
E Cap-products - The Hurewicz homomorphism 21
F Other homology theories over RP[actual symbol not reproducible] 23
2 Poincare Duality - Basic Properties
A PD-Spaces 25
B PD-Decompositions 30
C Smoothing low-dimensional skeleta 39
3 Q-Spaces - Poincare Spaces
A A homology theory over BG 58
B Q-Spaces 62
C Poincare spaces 73
D Poincare surgeries: preliminaries 77
4 The Poincare Bordism Groups and the Exact Sequence of Quinn
A Presentation of the results 85
B Proof of Proposition (4.7) 94
C Proof of Proposition (4.8) 106
5 Surgery on Poincare Spaces
A The formal point of view 142
B Manifold engulfings 152
C The geometric point of view 161
6 Handle Decompositions for Poincare Spaces 167
7 The Obstruction to Transversality
A Transversality up to Poincare bordism 174
B Transversality up to homotopy equivalence 189
8 The Quinn Exact Sequence for Other Kinds of Poincare Spaces
A Simple Poincare spaces 211
B A-Poincare spaces 212
C Non-finite Poincare spaces 229
9 Other Applications 236
Appendix: On Fibrations with Complexes Having Finite Skeleta 242
References 245
Index 251

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Book by Hausmann JeanClaude Vogel Pierre

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