Algebraic Topology Waterloo 1978: Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the Canadian Mathematical Society, NSERC (Canada), and the University of Waterloo, June 1978

G. Carlsson, R. James Milgram (auth.), Peter Hoffman, Victor Snaith (eds.)9780387095455, 0-387-09545-4

Table of contents :
The structure of odd L-groups….Pages 1-72
Whitehead torsion for PL fiber homotopy equivalences….Pages 73-89
Localization in quadratic L-theory….Pages 90-101
K 2 (Z[Z/5]) is generated by relations among 2×2 matrices….Pages 102-157
Surgery spaces: Formulae and structure….Pages 158-169
Balanced splitings of semi-free actions on homotopy spheres….Pages 170-195
Some examples of finite group actions….Pages 196-205
The homotopy structure of finite group actions on spheres….Pages 206-221
Addition of equivariant surgery obstructions….Pages 222-243
Obstructions to realizing equivariant witt classes….Pages 244-271
Stable G-smoothing….Pages 272-282
Linear actions on friendly spaces….Pages 283-306
The kunneth formula in equivariant K-theory….Pages 307-315
Isotopy classes of periodic diffeomorphisms on spheres….Pages 316-333
Original brown-peterson spectra….Pages 334-354
Bp-operations and mappings of stunted complex projective spaces….Pages 355-372
On the stable homotopy of symplectic classifying and thom spaces….Pages 373-393
New applications of commutative algebra to brown-peterson homology….Pages 394-448
The signature of symplectic and self-conjugate manifolds….Pages 449-460
Homology isomorphisms….Pages 461-472
An isomorphism between products of abelian groups….Pages 473-511
Axiomatic homotopy theory….Pages 512-519
Construction of mod p H-spaces II….Pages 520-547
The mod 3 cohomology of the exceptional lie group E 8 ….Pages 548-556
A counterexample to the transfer conjecture….Pages 557-587
Infinite loop space theory revisited….Pages 588-624
A J-homomorphism associated with a space of empty varieties (addenda and corrigenda to two papers on the J-homomorphism)….Pages 625-642
….Pages 643-652