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Tel Aviv Topology Conference: Rothenberg Festschrift
 
Edited by: Michael Farber Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Wolfgang Lück Westfalische Wilhelms University, Munster, Germany
Shmuel Weinberger University of Chicago, IL
Tel Aviv Topology Conference: Rothenberg Festschrift
eBook ISBN:  978-0-8218-7822-4
Product Code:  CONM/231.E
List Price: $125.00
MAA Member Price: $112.50
AMS Member Price: $100.00
Tel Aviv Topology Conference: Rothenberg Festschrift
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Tel Aviv Topology Conference: Rothenberg Festschrift
Edited by: Michael Farber Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Wolfgang Lück Westfalische Wilhelms University, Munster, Germany
Shmuel Weinberger University of Chicago, IL
eBook ISBN:  978-0-8218-7822-4
Product Code:  CONM/231.E
List Price: $125.00
MAA Member Price: $112.50
AMS Member Price: $100.00
  • Book Details
     
     
    Contemporary Mathematics
    Volume: 2311999; 320 pp
    MSC: Primary 55; 57

    This volume presents the proceedings of the Tel Aviv International Topology Conference held during the Special Topology Program at Tel Aviv University. The book is dedicated to Professor Mel Rothenberg on the occasion of his 65th birthday. His contributions to topology are well known—from the early work on triangulations to numerous papers on transformation groups and on geometric and analytic aspects of torsion theory. Current research related to those contributions are reported in this book.

    Coverage is included on the following topics: vanishing theorems for the Dirac operator, the theory of Reidemeister torsion (including infinite dimensional flat bundles), Nobikov-Shubin invariants of manifolds, topology of group actions, Lusternik-Schnirelman theory for closed 1-forms, finite type invariants of links and 3-manifolds, equivariant cobordisms, equivariant orientations and Thom isomorphisms, and more.

    Readership

    Graduate students and research mathematicians working in algebraic topology.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Articles
    • Maxim Braverman — Vanishing theorems on covering manifolds [ MR 1705571 ]
    • Robert Brooks — The Sunada method [ MR 1705572 ]
    • D. Burghelea, L. Friedlander and T. Kappeler — Relative torsion for homotopy triangulations [ MR 1705573 ]
    • Sylvain Cappell and Julius Shaneson — Non-linear similarity and linear similarity are equivariant below dimension $6$ [ MR 1705574 ]
    • Michael Farber — Massey products and critical points [ MR 1705575 ]
    • Michael Farber and Vladimir Turaev — Absolute torsion [ MR 1705576 ]
    • Stavros Garoufalidis — Signatures of links and finite type invariants of cyclic branched covers [ MR 1705577 ]
    • Viktor L. Ginzburg, Victor L. Guillemin and Yael Karshon — The relation between compact and non-compact equivariant cobordisms [ MR 1705578 ]
    • Mikhail G. Katz and Alexander I. Suciu — Volume of Riemannian manifolds, geometric inequalities, and homotopy theory [ MR 1705579 ]
    • Jerome Levine — Pure braids, a new subgroup of the mapping class group and finite-type invariants of $3$-manifolds [ MR 1705580 ]
    • Wolfgang Lück, Holger Reich and Thomas Schick — Novikov-Shubin invariants for arbitrary group actions and their positivity [ MR 1707342 ]
    • Martin Markl and Steve Shnider — Differential operator endomorphisms of an Euler-Lagrange complex [ MR 1707343 ]
    • Varghese Mathai — $K$-theory of twisted group $C^*$-algebras and positive scalar curvature [ MR 1707344 ]
    • J. P. May — Equivariant orientations and Thom isomorphisms [ MR 1707345 ]
    • Alexander Nabutovsky and Shmuel Weinberger — Algorithmic aspects of homeomorphism problems [ MR 1707346 ]
    • Jonathan Rosenberg — The $G$-signature theorem revisited [ MR 1707347 ]
    • Mikhail Shubin — A sequence of connections and a characterization of Kähler manifolds [ MR 1707348 ]
    • Mina Teicher — New invariants for surfaces [ MR 1707349 ]
    • Georgia Triantafillou — The arithmeticity of groups of automorphisms of spaces [ MR 1707350 ]
    • Shmuel Weinberger — Nonlinear averaging, embeddings, and group actions [ MR 1707351 ]
    • Shmuel Weinberger — Higher $\rho $-invariants [ MR 1707352 ]
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Volume: 2311999; 320 pp
MSC: Primary 55; 57

This volume presents the proceedings of the Tel Aviv International Topology Conference held during the Special Topology Program at Tel Aviv University. The book is dedicated to Professor Mel Rothenberg on the occasion of his 65th birthday. His contributions to topology are well known—from the early work on triangulations to numerous papers on transformation groups and on geometric and analytic aspects of torsion theory. Current research related to those contributions are reported in this book.

Coverage is included on the following topics: vanishing theorems for the Dirac operator, the theory of Reidemeister torsion (including infinite dimensional flat bundles), Nobikov-Shubin invariants of manifolds, topology of group actions, Lusternik-Schnirelman theory for closed 1-forms, finite type invariants of links and 3-manifolds, equivariant cobordisms, equivariant orientations and Thom isomorphisms, and more.

Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians working in algebraic topology.

  • Articles
  • Maxim Braverman — Vanishing theorems on covering manifolds [ MR 1705571 ]
  • Robert Brooks — The Sunada method [ MR 1705572 ]
  • D. Burghelea, L. Friedlander and T. Kappeler — Relative torsion for homotopy triangulations [ MR 1705573 ]
  • Sylvain Cappell and Julius Shaneson — Non-linear similarity and linear similarity are equivariant below dimension $6$ [ MR 1705574 ]
  • Michael Farber — Massey products and critical points [ MR 1705575 ]
  • Michael Farber and Vladimir Turaev — Absolute torsion [ MR 1705576 ]
  • Stavros Garoufalidis — Signatures of links and finite type invariants of cyclic branched covers [ MR 1705577 ]
  • Viktor L. Ginzburg, Victor L. Guillemin and Yael Karshon — The relation between compact and non-compact equivariant cobordisms [ MR 1705578 ]
  • Mikhail G. Katz and Alexander I. Suciu — Volume of Riemannian manifolds, geometric inequalities, and homotopy theory [ MR 1705579 ]
  • Jerome Levine — Pure braids, a new subgroup of the mapping class group and finite-type invariants of $3$-manifolds [ MR 1705580 ]
  • Wolfgang Lück, Holger Reich and Thomas Schick — Novikov-Shubin invariants for arbitrary group actions and their positivity [ MR 1707342 ]
  • Martin Markl and Steve Shnider — Differential operator endomorphisms of an Euler-Lagrange complex [ MR 1707343 ]
  • Varghese Mathai — $K$-theory of twisted group $C^*$-algebras and positive scalar curvature [ MR 1707344 ]
  • J. P. May — Equivariant orientations and Thom isomorphisms [ MR 1707345 ]
  • Alexander Nabutovsky and Shmuel Weinberger — Algorithmic aspects of homeomorphism problems [ MR 1707346 ]
  • Jonathan Rosenberg — The $G$-signature theorem revisited [ MR 1707347 ]
  • Mikhail Shubin — A sequence of connections and a characterization of Kähler manifolds [ MR 1707348 ]
  • Mina Teicher — New invariants for surfaces [ MR 1707349 ]
  • Georgia Triantafillou — The arithmeticity of groups of automorphisms of spaces [ MR 1707350 ]
  • Shmuel Weinberger — Nonlinear averaging, embeddings, and group actions [ MR 1707351 ]
  • Shmuel Weinberger — Higher $\rho $-invariants [ MR 1707352 ]
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