Semialgebraic topology in the last ten years (Q4037337)

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0756.00007.] In this survey paper the author describes the progress made in 10 years of development of semialgebraic topology on general real closed fields. This development is part of the general development of real algebraic geometry since one aspect of this development is to understand the general geometric facts valid in any real closed field. This implies developing concepts quite unusual to classical topologists. The author first compares the abstract approach via real spectra and the geometric approach via finite coverings by semi-algebraic sets and then indicates the main results obtained. These results are for a big part devoted to the extension of classical results of usual topology like Borel-Moore homology to this less usual situation. In section 13, though, he indicates that some of the results are more surprizing, quoting in particular a fixed point theorem of G. Brumfield in the non compact case allowing to use the real spectrum in order to compactify Teichmüller space. This paper is a very useful guide in the literature of semialgebraic topology.