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Author(s):
Robion C. Kirby
Title:
The topology of 4-manifolds
Additional book information:
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York, 1989, 106 pp., $13.50. ISBN 3-540-51148-2
References:
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- 4.
- J. Milnor, On simply connected 4-manifolds, Proc. Int. Symp. Algebraic Topology, Mexico, 1958, pp. 122-128. MR 103472
- 5.
- L. Siebenmann, Amorces de la chirurgie en dimension 4, un S, (d'apres A. Casson et M. Freedman), Séminaire Bourbaki (1979-80), Exp. 536, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 770, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York, 1980, pp. 183-207. MR 572425
- 6.
- L. Siebenmann, La conjecture de Poincaré topologique en dimension 4, (d'apres M. H. Freedman), Séminaire Bourbaki (1981-82), Exp. 588, Astérisque, no. 92-93, Soc. Math. France, Paris, 1982, pp. 219-248. MR 689532
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- C. T. C. Wall, Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds, J. London Math. Soc. 39 (1964), 131-140. MR 163323
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- C. T. C. Wall, On simply connected 4-manifolds, J. London Math. Soc. 39 (1964), 141-149. MR 163324
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- J. H. C. Whitehead, On simply connected 4-dimensional polyhedra, Comm. Math. Helv. 22 (1949), 48-92. MR 29171
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Laurence R.
Taylor
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
24
(1991),
466-471.
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16068-4
PII:
S 0273-0979(1991)16068-4
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