Four-dimensional topology: an introduction

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14687-XzbMath0476.57005WikidataQ56502458 ScholiaQ56502458MaRDI QIDQ3933639

Richard Mandelbaum

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

surgery theoryembedding problemscomplex surfaceslink calculusRohlin's theoremCasson-handlesh- and s-cobordism theoremssmooth and PL structures on manifoldstopology of 4-dimensional manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) (h)- and (s)-cobordism (57R80) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Smoothing in differential topology (57R10)

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