Intersection Whitehead torsion and the s-cobordism theorem for pseudomanifolds

DOI10.1007/BF01159650MaRDI QIDQ1095455zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Aparna Dar

Publication date 1988

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/173960

zbMATH Keywords

intersection Whitehead torsionpseudomanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poincaré duality spaces (57P10) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) Cobordism in PL-topology (57Q20)

Review text

The s-cobordism theorem for manifolds states that an h-cobordism \((W,M_ 0,M_ 1)\) is a product only if the Whitehead torsion \((W,M_ 0)\) equals zero. In this paper we generalize this theorem to a class of singular spaces, i.e. pseudomanifolds using the intersection Whitehead torsion. An h-cobordism \((V,X_ 0,X_ 1)\) is a product only if the intersection Whitehead torsion \((V,X_ 0)\) equals zero.

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