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Record Nr.

UNISA996466582503316

Autore

Rutter John W. <1935->

Titolo

Spaces of homotopy self-equivalences : a survey / / John W. Rutter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; New York, New York : , : Springer, , [1997]

©1997

ISBN

3-540-69135-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 1997.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 170 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1662

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Homotopy groups

Homotopy equivalences

H-spaces

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [138]-162) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries -- Building blocks -- Representations: homology and homotopy -- Surfaces -- Generators: surface, modular groups -- Manifolds of dimension three or more -- ?*(X) not finitely generated -- Localization -- ?*(X) finitely presented, nilpotent -- L-R duality -- Cellular/homology complexes: methods -- Cellular, homology complexes: calculations -- Non-1-connected postnikov: methods -- Homotopy systems, chain complexes -- Non-1-connected spaces: calculations -- Whitehead torsion, simple homotopy -- Unions and products -- Group theoretic properties -- Homotopy type, homotopy groups -- Homotopy automorphisms of H-spaces -- Fibre and equivariant HE’s -- Applications.

Sommario/riassunto

This survey covers groups of homotopy self-equivalence classes of topological spaces, and the homotopy type of spaces of homotopy self-equivalences. For manifolds, the full group of equivalences and the mapping class group are compared, as are the corresponding spaces. Included are methods of calculation, numerous calculations, finite generation results, Whitehead torsion and other areas. Some 330 references are given. The book assumes familiarity with cell complexes, homology and homotopy. Graduate students and established researchers can use it for learning, for reference, and to determine the current state of knowledge.