Topological rigidity problems

DOI10.20454/JAST.2016.1095MaRDI QIDQ2956799zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ramesh Kasilingam

Publication date 19 January 2017

Published in Journal of Advanced Studies in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04139

zbMATH Keywords

aspherical closed manifoldBorel conjectureFarrell-Jones conjecturenon-positively curved manifoldNovikov conjecturetopological rigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic (K)-theory and (L)-theory (category-theoretic aspects) (18F25) (K_0) of group rings and orders (19A31) (L)-theory of group rings (19G24) Rigidity results (53C24) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: We survey the recent results and current issues on the topological rigidity problem for closed aspherical manifolds, i.e., connected closed manifolds whose universal coverings are contractible. A number of open problems and conjectures are presented during the course of the discussion. We also review the status and applications of the Farrell-Jones Conjecture for algebraic $K$-and $L$-theory for a group ring $RG$ and coefficients in an additive category. These conjectures imply many other well-known and important conjectures. Examples are the Borel Conjecture about the topological rigidity of closed aspherical manifolds, the Novikov Conjecture about the homotopy invariance of higher signatures and the Conjecture for vanishing of the Whitehead group. We here present the status of the Borel, Novikov and vanishing of the Whitehead group Conjectures.

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