The fundamental surgery theorem and the classification of manifolds
The purpose of this paper is to present a survey of some important results in the classification of differentiable manifolds. We begin with the Poincaré conjecture and its partial solution using the h-cobordism theorem. We review next the work of Kervaire and Milnor, concerned with the diffeomorphis...
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| Language: | English |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/22469 |