Author | Ranicki, Andrew. author |
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Title | High-dimensional Knot Theory [electronic resource] : Algebraic Surgery in Codimension 2 / by Andrew Ranicki |
Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12011-8 |
Descript | XXXVI, 646 p. online resource |
Algebraic K-theory -- Finite structures -- Geometric bands -- Algebraic bands -- Localization and completion in K-theory -- K-theory of polynomial extensions -- K-theory of formal power series -- Algebraic transversality -- Finite domination and Novikov homology -- Noncommutative localization -- Endomorphism K-theory -- The characteristic polynomial -- Primary K-theory -- Automorphism K-theory -- Witt vectors -- The fibering obstruction -- Reidemeister torsion -- Alexander polynomials -- K-theory of Dedekind rings -- K-theory of function fields -- Algebraic L-theory -- Algebraic Poincarรฉ complexes -- Codimension q surgery -- Codimension 2 surgery -- Manifold and geometric Poincarรฉ bordism of X ร S 1 -- L-theory of Laurent extensions -- Localization and completion in L-theory -- Asymmetric L-theory -- Framed codimension 2 surgery -- Automorphism L-theory -- Open books -- Twisted doubles -- Isometric L-theory -- Seifert and Blanchfield complexes -- Knot theory -- Endomorphism L-theory -- Primary L-theory -- Almost symmetric L-theory -- L-theory of fields and rational localization -- L-theory of Dedekind rings -- L-theory of function fields -- The multisignature -- Coupling invariants -- The knot cobordism groups