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Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Part 1

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R. James Milgram, Editor

Publication: Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
Publication Year: 1978; Volume 32.1
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1432-1 (print); 978-0-8218-9320-3 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/pspum/032.1

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Algebraic $K$- and $L$-theory

• A. E. Hatcher – Concordance spaces, higher simple-homotopy theory, and applications [MR 520490]
• J. B. Wagoner – Diffeomorphisms, $K_{2}$, and analytic torsion [MR 520491]
• Friedhelm Waldhausen – Algebraic $K$-theory of topological spaces. I [MR 520492]
• J. P. Alexander, P. E. Conner and G. C. Hamrick – Metabolic and hyperbolic forms [MR 520493]
• Jean-Claude Hausmann and Pierre Vogel – The plus construction and lifting maps from manifolds [MR 520494]

Surgery and its applications

• R. James Milgram – A survey of the classifying spaces associated to spherical fiberings and surgery [MR 520495]
• Ib Madsen – Remarks on normal invariants from the infinite loop space viewpoint [MR 520496]
• Gregory Brumfiel – Remarks on smoothing theory [MR 520497]
• C. T. C. Wall – Free actions of finite groups on spheres [MR 520498]
• C. B. Thomas – Free actions by finite groups on $S^{3}$ [MR 520499]
• Lowell Jones – The nonsimply connected characteristic variety theorem [MR 520500]
• John Jones and Elmer Rees – Kervaire’s invariant for framed manifolds [MR 520501]
• Youn W. Lee – Surgery on diffeomorphism [MR 520502]
• Reinhard Schultz – Smooth actions of small groups on exotic spheres [MR 520503]
• R. J. Milgram and I. Hambleton – An obstruction to Poincaré transversality [MR 520504]

Group actions

• Ted Petrie – Pseudoequivalences of $G$-manifolds [MR 520505]
• R. Lashof and M. Rothenberg – $G$-smoothing theory [MR 520506]
• Mel Rothenberg – Torsion invariants and finite transformation groups [MR 520507]
• M. Davis, W. C. Hsiang and W.-y. Hsiang – Differential actions of compact simple Lie groups on homotopy spheres and Euclidean spaces [MR 520508]
• F. T. Farrell and W. C. Hsiang – On the rational homotopy groups of the diffeomorphism groups of discs, spheres and aspherical manifolds [MR 520509]
• Robert Oliver – Group actions on disks, integral permutation representations, and the Burnside ring [MR 520510]
• Dan Burghelea – Automorphisms of manifolds [MR 520511]
• I. Berstein and J. E. West – Based free compact Lie group actions on Hilbert cubes [MR 520512]
• P. E. Conner and Frank Raymond – Realizing automorphisms of $\pi _{1}$ by homeomorphisms [MR 520513]
• Francis X. Connolly – Group actions, vector fields, and characteristic numbers [MR 520514]
• Ravindra S. Kulkarni – Infinite regular coverings and Kleinian groups [MR 520515]