Spaces of homotopy self-equivalences. A survey
The present work is a brilliant survey of the results in the area of self-equivalences (homotopy) of a space. Beginning with the 19th century (equivalences of a Riemann surface) right up to the mid 1990's the author analyzes the main trends which include: (1) based and free homotopy equivalences of surfaces and manifolds, (2) cellular and Postnikov methods; finite-generation and finite presentation, (3) non-simply connected spaces, Whitehead torsion, and (4) the homotopy structure of the space of self-equivalences. More technical questions such as \(n\)-type and the algebra of arithmetic groups are placed in the appendices. While it is clearly impossible to supply proofs for the work of 331 books and papers by dozens of authors, the author manages to convey the ideas behind some of the proofs in a remarkably clear and concise way. The result is a state-of-the-art description of an amazing subject through the middle of the present decade. It will be of great value to anyone who wishes to enter any part of this surprising field. When the reviewer began to work in the area in 1962, he was motivated by a remark of the late J. H. C. Whitehead stressing the need to understand the group of homotopy self-equivalences, and an interest in finding examples for some new techniques with Postnikov towers. The reviewer was naive and had not idea whatsoever how this subject would grow in so many different directions. The subject shows no signs of dying, and there are many new results which are appropriate for such a survey (but came to late to be included). Among those would be [\textit{P. R. Heath}, Quaest. Math. 19, No. 3-4, 433-451 (1996; Zbl 0872.55005)] and [\textit{P. Pavsic}, Self-homotopy equivalences of products spaces, to appear].
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