The work of Tom Farrell and Lowell Jones in topology and geometry

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2012.V8.N1.A3MaRDI QIDQ429557zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James F. Davis

Publication date 20 June 2012

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1489

zbMATH Keywords

surgerygeodesic flowhyperbolic manifoldBorel conjecturetopological rigidityWhitehead group\(K\)- and \(L\)-groupsasymptotic transferFarrell-James isomorphism conjecturehigh-dimensional topologyLawson-Yau conjectureMostov rigidityNielsen realizationstable pseudoisotopy space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Sociology (and profession) of mathematics (01A80) History of manifolds and cell complexes (57-03)

Abstract: This is a survey of some of the work of Tom Farrell and Lowell Jones. This is the lead article of a special issue of the Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly. This issue is published in conjunction with the conference "Geometry,Topology, and their Interactions" held in Morelia, Mexico.

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