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59,85 €Introduction
1. Foundations
2. Geometrical tools
3. Differentiable group actions
4. General position and transversality
5. Theory of handle decompositions
6. Immersions and embeddings
7. Surgery
8. Cobordism
Appendix A. Topology
Appendix B. Homotopy theory
References
Index of notation
Index.
Exploring the full scope of differential topology, this comprehensive account of geometric techniques for studying the topology of smooth manifolds offers a wide perspective on the field. Building up from first principles, concepts of manifolds are introduced, supplemented by thorough appendices giving background on topology and homotopy theory. Deep results are then developed from these foundations through in-depth treatments of the notions of general position and transversality, proper actions of Lie groups, handles (up to the h-cobordism theorem), immersions and embeddings, concluding with the surgery procedure and cobordism theory. Fully illustrated and rigorous in its approach, little prior knowledge is assumed, and yet growing complexity is instilled throughout. This structure gives advanced students and researchers an accessible route into the wide-ranging field of differential topology.
Features
• Addresses a wide range of results in differential topology using an integrated and unified approach
• Requires little prior knowledge, with thorough appendices providing relevant background
• Includes recent results, making it up to date and relevant for current researchers
• Fully illustrated to provide additional explanation and context
Author
C. T. C. Wall, University of Liverpool
C. T. C. Wall is Emeritus Professor in the Division of Pure Mathematics at the University of Liverpool. During his career he has held positions at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge and has been invited as a major speaker to numerous conferences in Europe, the USA and South America. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969.
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