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

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2012.V8.N1.A3zbMATH Open1247.57006arXiv1006.1489MaRDI QIDQ429557FDOQ429557

Authors: James F. Davis 

Publication date: 20 June 2012

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

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.

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

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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)

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