Recent developments in algebraic topology : a conference to celebrate Sam Gitler's 70th birthday, December 3-6, 2003, San Miguel de Allende, México
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Recent developments in algebraic topology : a conference to celebrate Sam Gitler's 70th birthday, December 3-6, 2003, San Miguel de Allende, México
(Contemporary mathematics, 407)
American Mathematical Society, c2006
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This book is an excellent illustration of the versatility of Algebraic Topology interacting with other areas in Mathematics and Physics. Topics discussed in this volume range from classical Differential Topology and Homotopy Theory (Kervaire invariant one problem) to more recent lines of research such as Topological Quantum Field Theory (string theory). Likewise, alternative viewpoints on classical problems in Global Analysis and Dynamical Systems are developed (a spectral sequence approach to normal form theory). This collection of papers is based on talks at the conference on the occasion of Sam Gitler's 70th birthday (December, 2003). The variety of topics covered in this book reflects the many areas where Sam Gitler's contributions have had an impact.
Table of Contents
The mathematical work of Sam Gitler, 1960-2003 by D. M. Davis The topology of the category of open and closed strings by N. A. Baas, R. L. Cohen, and A. Rami rez A spectral sequence approach to normal forms by M. Bendersky and R. C. Churchill On the degree 2 map for a sphere by F. R. Cohen and I. Johnson On the fibrewise Poincare-Hopf theorem by C. L. Douglas A localization principle for orbifold theories by T. de Fernex, E. Lupercio, T. Nevins, and B. Uribe On classifying spaces for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups by D. Juan-Pineda and I. J. Leary Symmetric products of two dimensional complexes by S. Kallel and P. Salvatore Block bundle obstruction to Kervaire invariant one by K. Y. Lam and D. Randall Upper bounds for the span of projective Stiefel manifolds by P. Sankaran and P. Zvengrowski On $\mathbb{Z}_2$-equivariant loop spaces by M. A. Xicotencatl.
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