LEADER 03978nam 2200541 450 001 9910812583403321 005 20180731045346.0 010 $a0-8218-7822-0 035 $a(CKB)3240000000069759 035 $a(EBL)3112946 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3112946 035 $a(RPAM)3102074 035 $a(PPN)197105572 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000069759 100 $a19990218h19991999 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aTel Aviv Topology Conference, Rothenberg festschrift $eInternational Conference on Topology, June 1-5, 1998, Tel Aviv /$fMichael Farber, Wolfgang Lu?ck, Shmuel Weinberger, editors 210 1$aProvidence, Rhode Island :$cAmerican Mathematical Society,$d[1999] 210 4$dİ1999 215 $a1 online resource (334 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary mathematics,$x0271-4132 ;$v231 300 $aDedicated to Mel Rothenberg on the occasion of his 65th birthday. 311 $a0-8218-1362-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""Novikov-Shubin invariants for arbitrary group actions and their positivity""""Differential operator endomorphisms of an Euler-Lagrange complex""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. First toys""; ""3. More serious models""; ""4. Main results""; ""5. Proofs""; ""6. Applications""; ""K-theory of twisted group C*-algebras and positive scalar curvature""; ""Equivariant orientations and Thorn isomorphisms""; ""1. The fundamental groupoid and categorical definitions""; ""2. Functors to the category of G-spaces over orbits""; ""3. Coherent families of connected covers"" 410 0$aContemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ;$v231. 517 1 $aTel Aviv Topology Conference 606 $aTopology$vCongresses 615 0$aTopology 676 $a514 702 $aRothenberg$b Melvin$f1934- 702 $aFarber$b Michael$f1951- 702 $aLu?ck$b Wolfgang$f1957- 702 $aWeinberger$b Shmuel 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812583403321 996 $aTEL AVIV topology conference: Rothenberg Festschrift$9343071 997 $aUNINA