Differential Manifolds

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Academic Press, 1992 M12 3 - 248 páginas
Differential Manifolds is a modern graduate-level introduction to the important field of differential topology. The concepts of differential topology lie at the heart of many mathematical disciplines such as differential geometry and the theory of lie groups. The book introduces both the h-cobordism theorem and the classification of differential structures on spheres. The presentation of a number of topics in a clear and simple fashion make this book an outstanding choice for a graduate course in differential topology as well as for individual study.
  • Presents the study and classification of smooth structures on manifolds
  • It begins with the elements of theory and concludes with an introduction to the method of surgery
  • Chapters 1-5 contain a detailed presentation of the foundations of differential topology--no knowledge of algebraic topology is required for this self-contained section
  • Chapters 6-8 begin by explaining the joining of manifolds along submanifolds, and ends with the proof of the h-cobordism theory
  • Chapter 9 presents the Pontriagrin construction, the principle link between differential topology and homotopy theory; The final chapter introduces the method of surgery and applies it to the classification of smooth structures on spheres
 

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Chapter I Differentiable Structures
1
Chapter II Immersions Imbeddings Submanifolds
25
Chapter III Normal Bundle Tubular Neighborhoods
41
Chapter IV Transversality
59
Chapter V Foliations
75
Chapter VI Operations on Manifolds
89
Chapter VII Handle Presentation Theorem
125
Chapter VIII The hCobordism Theorem
143
Chapter IX Framed Manifolds
167
Chapter X Surgery
195
Appendix
223
Bibliography
233
Index
241
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