03978nam 2200541 450 991081258340332120180731045346.00-8218-7822-0(CKB)3240000000069759(EBL)3112946(MiAaPQ)EBC3112946(RPAM)3102074(PPN)197105572(EXLCZ)99324000000006975919990218h19991999 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierTel Aviv Topology Conference, Rothenberg festschrift International Conference on Topology, June 1-5, 1998, Tel Aviv /Michael Farber, Wolfgang Lück, Shmuel Weinberger, editorsProvidence, Rhode Island :American Mathematical Society,[1999]©19991 online resource (334 p.)Contemporary mathematics,0271-4132 ;231Dedicated to Mel Rothenberg on the occasion of his 65th birthday.0-8218-1362-5 Includes bibliographical references.""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Vanishing theorems on covering manifolds""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. L 2 vanishing theorem for the half-kernel of a Dirac operator""; ""3. Complex manifolds. The L 2 analogue of the Andreotti-Grauert theorem""; ""4. Almost complex manifolds. An analogue of the Andreotti-Grauert theorem.""; ""5. Application to the representation theory""; ""6. Proof of the vanishing theorem for the half-kernel of a Dirac operator""; ""7. Proof of the Andreotti-Grauert-type theorem for almost complex manifolds""; ""8. Proof of the L 2 Andreotti-Grauert theorem""""9. The Lichnerowicz formula. Proof of Propositions 6.3 and 7.1""""10. Estimate of the metric Laplacian""; ""References""; ""The Sunada method""; ""Relative torsion for homotopy triangulations""; ""0. Introduction and statements of the results.""; ""1. Operators and complexes and the proof of the first four results.""; ""2. Anomalies for the relative torsion.""; ""3. References.""; ""Non-linear similarity and linear similarity are equivariant below dimension 6""; ""Massey products and critical points""; ""Absolute torsion""""Signatures of links and finite type invariants of cyclic branched covers""""The relation between compact and non-compact equivariant cobordisms""; ""Volume of Riemannian manifolds, geometric inequalities, and homotopy theory""; ""Pure braids, a new subgroup of the mapping class group and finite-type invariants of 3-manifolds""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Statement of Results""; ""3. Proof of Theorem 1""; ""4. Proof of Proposition 2.1""; ""5. Proof of Theorem 2""; ""6. Proof of Theorems 3 and 4.""; ""7. Proof of Proposition 2.2""; ""8. Proof of Theorem 5""; ""References""""Novikov-Shubin invariants for arbitrary group actions and their positivity""""Differential operator endomorphisms of an Euler-Lagrange complex""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. First toys""; ""3. More serious models""; ""4. Main results""; ""5. Proofs""; ""6. Applications""; ""K-theory of twisted group C*-algebras and positive scalar curvature""; ""Equivariant orientations and Thorn isomorphisms""; ""1. The fundamental groupoid and categorical definitions""; ""2. Functors to the category of G-spaces over orbits""; ""3. Coherent families of connected covers""Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ;231.Tel Aviv Topology ConferenceTopologyCongressesTopology514Rothenberg Melvin1934-Farber Michael1951-Lück Wolfgang1957-Weinberger ShmuelMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812583403321TEL AVIV topology conference: Rothenberg Festschrift343071UNINA