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

DOI10.1515/9781400881505zbMath0361.57004MaRDI QIDQ4134605

Laurent C. Siebenmann, Robion Kirby

Publication date: 1977

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57Q15: Triangulating manifolds

57Q10: Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc.

57-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes

57R50: Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms

57Q25: Comparison of PL-structures: classification, Hauptvermutung

57N99: Topological manifolds

57R10: Smoothing in differential topology

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