G-signatures and cyclotomic units

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(89)90055-2zbMath0674.57030OpenAlexW1987483844MaRDI QIDQ1121563

Shmuel Weinberger

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(89)90055-2

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic K-theorysurgery obstructionsL-theoryG-signature of piecewise linearlocally linear \({\mathbb{Z}}_ n\) actionssigns of real units of a cyclotomic field under the Galois embeddings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite transformation groups (57S17) Class field theory (11R37) Iwasawa theory (11R23) Cyclotomic extensions (11R18) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) (K)-theory of global fields (11R70) Algebraic (K)-theory and (L)-theory (category-theoretic aspects) (18F25) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Wall finiteness obstruction for CW-complexes (57Q12)

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