Cobordisms and Reidemeister torsions of homotopy lens spaces (Q1601278)

In this well written and well documented paper, the author studies 3-dimensional manifolds that have a finite cyclic group as fundamental group. By classical results, such manifolds are homotopy equivalent to lens spaces. It is, however, an important unsolved problem, whether they are homeomorphic to lens spaces. As his main result, the author proves the weaker statement: If a 3-dimensional homotopy lens space is simple-homotopy equivalent to a lens space, then it is topologically s-cobordant to the lens space.