On homotopy invariance of higher signatures

DOI10.1007/BF01402341zbMath0335.57007MaRDI QIDQ1229489

Sylvain E. Cappell

Publication date: 1976

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142379

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) Homotopy groups, general; sets of homotopy classes (55Q05) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) (h)- and (s)-cobordism (57R80) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

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