Shape Theory and Geometric Topology: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, January 19 – 30, 1981

Steve Ferry (auth.), Sibe Mardešić, Jack Segal (eds.)9780387108469, 0-387-10846-7

Table of contents :
Finitely dominated compacta need not have finite type….Pages 1-5
Fixed points in finitely dominated compacta: the geometric meaning of a conjecture of H. Bass….Pages 6-22
Splitting homotopy idempotents….Pages 23-36
Approximate fibrations-a geometric perspective….Pages 37-47
Local n-connectivity of quotient spaces and one-point compactifications….Pages 48-72
A simple-homotopy approach to the finiteness obstruction….Pages 73-81
Generalized three-manifolds….Pages 82-92
Some properties of deformation dimension….Pages 93-104
Dimension, cohomological dimension, and cell-like mappings….Pages 105-118
Embedding compacta up to shape….Pages 119-134
On shape concordances….Pages 135-149
Complement theorems in shape theory….Pages 150-168
Embeddings in shape theory….Pages 169-185
Under what conditions are shape homology $$underline {bar E} _{rlap{–} x}$$ and steenrod homology $$^S underset{raise0.3emhbox{$smash{scriptscriptstyle-}$}}{E} _{rlap{–} x}$$ isomorphic ?….Pages 186-214
Strong shape theory….Pages 215-238
Inverse limits and resolutions….Pages 239-252
Application of the shape theory in the characterization of exact homology theories and the strong shape homotopic theory….Pages 253-262