Surgery on Compact Manifolds

Abstract

Preliminaries: Note on conventions Basic homotopy notions Surgery below the middle dimension Appendix: Applications Simple Poincare complexes The main theorem: Statement of results An important special case The even-dimensional case The odd-dimensional case The bounded odd-dimensional case The bounded even-dimensional case Completion of the proof Patterns of application: Manifold structures on Poincare complexes Applications to submanifolds Submanifolds: Other techniques Separating submanifolds Two-sided submanifolds One-sided submanifolds Calculations and applications: Calculations: Surgery obstruction groups Calculations: The surgery obstructions Applications: Free actions on spheres General remarks An extension of the Atiyah-Singer $G$-signature theorem Free actions of $S^1$ Fake projective spaces (real) Fake lens spaces Applications: Free uniform actions on euclidean space Fake tori Polycyclic groups Applications to 4-manifolds Postscript: Further ideas and suggestions: Recent work Function space methods Topological manifolds Poincare embeddings Homotopy and simple homotopy Further calculations Sullivan's results Reformulations of the algebra Rational surgery References Index.