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Complex Cobordism and Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

Complex Cobordism and Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres

Since the publication of its first edition, this book has served as one of the few available on the classical Adams spectral sequence, and is the best account on the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence. This new edition has been updated in many places, especially the final chapter, which has been completely rewritten with an eye toward future research in the field. It remains the definitive reference on the stable homotopy groups of spheres. The first three chapters introduce the homotopy groups of spheres and take the reader from the classical results in the field though the computational aspects of the classical Adams spectral sequence and its modifications, which are the main tools topologist...

Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory and the Kervaire Invariant Problem
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 881

Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory and the Kervaire Invariant Problem

A complete and definitive account of the authors' resolution of the Kervaire invariant problem in stable homotopy theory.

Nilpotence and Periodicity in Stable Homotopy Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Nilpotence and Periodicity in Stable Homotopy Theory

Nilpotence and Periodicity in Stable Homotopy Theory describes some major advances made in algebraic topology in recent years, centering on the nilpotence and periodicity theorems, which were conjectured by the author in 1977 and proved by Devinatz, Hopkins, and Smith in 1985. During the last ten years a number of significant advances have been made in homotopy theory, and this book fills a real need for an up-to-date text on that topic. Ravenel's first few chapters are written with a general mathematical audience in mind. They survey both the ideas that lead up to the theorems and their applications to homotopy theory. The book begins with some elementary concepts of homotopy theory that are needed to state the problem. This includes such notions as homotopy, homotopy equivalence, CW-complex, and suspension. Next the machinery of complex cobordism, Morava K-theory, and formal group laws in characteristic p are introduced. The latter portion of the book provides specialists with a coherent and rigorous account of the proofs. It includes hitherto unpublished material on the smash product and chromatic convergence theorems and on modular representations of the symmetric group.

Complex Cobordism and Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Complex Cobordism and Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres

Since the publication of its first edition, this book has served as one of the few available on the classical Adams spectral sequence, and is the best account on the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence. This new edition has been updated in many places, especially the final chapter, which has been completely rewritten with an eye toward future research in the field. It remains the definitive reference on the stable homotopy groups of spheres. The first three chapters introduce the homotopy groups of spheres and take the reader from the classical results in the field though the computational aspects of the classical Adams spectral sequence and its modifications, which are the main tools topologist...

New Developments in Topology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 137

New Developments in Topology

Eleven of the fourteen invited speakers at a symposium held by the Oxford Mathematical Institute in June 1972 have revised their contributions and submitted them for publication in this volume. The present papers do not necessarily closely correspond with the original talks, as it was the intention of the volume editor to make this book of mathematical rather than historical interest. The contributions will be of value to workers in topology in universities and polytechnics.

Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory and the Kervaire Invariant Problem
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 882

Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory and the Kervaire Invariant Problem

The long-standing Kervaire invariant problem in homotopy theory arose from geometric and differential topology in the 1960s and was quickly recognised as one of the most important problems in the field. In 2009 the authors of this book announced a solution to the problem, which was published to wide acclaim in a landmark Annals of Mathematics paper. The proof is long and involved, using many sophisticated tools of modern (equivariant) stable homotopy theory that are unfamiliar to non-experts. This book presents the proof together with a full development of all the background material to make it accessible to a graduate student with an elementary algebraic topology knowledge. There are explicit examples of constructions used in solving the problem. Also featuring a motivating history of the problem and numerous conceptual and expository improvements on the proof, this is the definitive account of the resolution of the Kervaire invariant problem.

Conceptual Mathematics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Conceptual Mathematics

This truly elementary book on categories introduces retracts, graphs, and adjoints to students and scientists.

Categorical Foundations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Categorical Foundations

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Two-Dimensional Homotopy and Combinatorial Group Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Two-Dimensional Homotopy and Combinatorial Group Theory

Basic work on two-dimensional homotopy theory dates back to K. Reidemeister and J. H. C. Whitehead. Much work in this area has been done since then, and this book considers the current state of knowledge in all the aspects of the subject. The editors start with introductory chapters on low-dimensional topology, covering both the geometric and algebraic sides of the subject, the latter including crossed modules, Reidemeister-Peiffer identities, and a concrete and modern discussion of Whitehead's algebraic classification of 2-dimensional homotopy types. Further chapters have been skilfully selected and woven together to form a coherent picture. The latest algebraic results and their applications to 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds are dealt with. The geometric nature of the subject is illustrated to the full by over 100 diagrams. Final chapters summarize and contribute to the present status of the conjectures of Zeeman, Whitehead, and Andrews-Curtis. No other book covers all these topics. Some of the material here has been used in courses, making this book valuable for anyone with an interest in two-dimensional homotopy theory, from graduate students to research workers.

Homotopy Theory: An Introduction to Algebraic Topology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Homotopy Theory: An Introduction to Algebraic Topology

Homotopy Theory: An Introduction to Algebraic Topology