High-dimensional knot theory : algebraic surgery in codimension 2

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High-dimensional knot theory : algebraic surgery in codimension 2

Andrew Ranicki ; with an appendix by Elmar Winkelnkemper

(Springer monographs in mathematics)

Springer, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [627]-638) and index

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Bringing together many results previously scattered throughout the research literature into a single framework, this work concentrates on the application of the author's algebraic theory of surgery to provide a unified treatment of the invariants of codimension 2 embeddings, generalizing the Alexander polynomials and Seifert forms of classical knot theory.

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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 Poincare complexes.- Codimension q surgery.- Codimension 2 surgery.- Manifold and geometric Poincare bordism of X x 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.

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