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Combinatorial symmetries of the $m$-dimensional ball

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Lowell Jones

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1986; Volume 62, Number 352
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2414-6 (print); 978-1-4704-0768-1 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0352
MathSciNet review: 849939
MSC: Primary 57S17; Secondary 57R65, 57R67

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 0. Introduction to the problem
  • 1. Reduction to a blocked surgery problem $t$
  • 2. A geometric form of the characteristic variety theorem; reducing $t$ to the $Z_r$ surgery problems $\{t_i\}$
  • 3. Certain $t_i$ have simple homological kernels
  • 4. Completing surgery on the $t_i$ which have simple homological kernels
  • 5. Completing surgery on the rest of the $t_i$
  • 6. Classification of PL semi-free actions; further results; open problems