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Record Nr.

UNISA996466625603316

Titolo

Shape theory and geometric topology : proceedings of a conference held at the Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, January 19-30 1981 / / edited by S. Mardesic and J. Segal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; New York, New York : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1981]

©1981

ISBN

3-540-38749-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 1981.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 268 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 870

Disciplina

514.2

Soggetti

Topology

Algebraic topology

Shape theory (Topology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Finitely dominated compacta need not have finite type -- Fixed points in finitely dominated compacta: the geometric meaning of a conjecture of H. Bass -- Splitting homotopy idempotents -- Approximate fibrations-a geometric perspective -- Local n-connectivity of quotient spaces and one-point compactifications -- A simple-homotopy approach to the finiteness obstruction -- Generalized three-manifolds -- Some properties of deformation dimension -- Dimension, cohomological dimension, and cell-like mappings -- Embedding compacta up to shape -- On shape concordances -- Complement theorems in shape theory -- Embeddings in shape theory -- Under what conditions are shape homology and steenrod homology isomorphic ? -- Strong shape theory -- Inverse limits and resolutions -- Application of the shape theory in the characterization of exact homology theories and the strong shape homotopic theory.