Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations. (AM-88)

DOI10.1515/9781400881505zbMath0361.57004OpenAlexW4213152686MaRDI QIDQ4134605

Laurent C. Siebenmann, Robion Kirby

Publication date: 1977

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400881505

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Comparison of PL-structures: classification, Hauptvermutung (57Q25) Topological manifolds (57N99) Smoothing in differential topology (57R10)

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