by Matthias Kreck (Author), Matthias Kreck (Author), Wolfgang Lück (Contributor)
These lecture notes contain a guided tour to the Novikov Conjecture and related conjectures due to Baum-Connes, Borel and Farrell-Jones. Using the solution of the Novikov conjecture for special groups some applications to the classification of low dimensional manifolds are given.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 288
Edition: 2005
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 22 Nov 2004
ISBN 10: 9783764371
ISBN 13: 9783764371418