Recent developments in algebraic topology
Subtitle: a conference to celebrate Sam Gitler's 70th birthday, December 3-6, 2003, San Miguel Allende, México
By: Alejandro Ádem, Jesús González, Guillermo Pastor, editors
Contributors: Gitler, Samuel; Adem, Alejandro; González, Jesús, 1966-; Pastor, Guillermo, 1952-
Series: Contemporary mathematics -- 407; Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) -- v. 407
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Providence, R.I
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Algebraic topology
Description: "This book is an excellent illustration of the versatility of Algebraic Topology interacting with other areas in Mathematics and Physics. Topics discussed in this volume range from classical Differential Topology and Homotopy Theory (Kervaire invariant one problem) to more recent lines of research such as Topological Quantum Field Theory (string theory). Likewise, alternative viewpoints on classical problems in Global Analysis and Dynamical Systems are developed (a spectral sequence approach to normal form theory)." "This collection of papers is based on talks at the conference on the occasion of Sam Gitler's 70th birthday (December, 2003). The variety of topics covered in this book reflects the many areas where Sam Gitler's contributions have had an impact."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: A personal appreciation of Sam Gitler -- E. Micha; title: The mathematical work of Sam Gitler, 1960-2003 -- D. M. Davis; title: The topology of the category of open and closed strings -- N. A. Baas, R. L. Cohen, and A. Ramírez; title: A spectral sequence approach to normal forms -- M. Bendersky and R. C. Churchill; title: On the degree 2 map for a sphere -- F. R. Cohen and I. Johnson; title: On the fibrewise Poincaré-Hopf theorem -- C. L. Douglas; title: A localization principle for orbifold theories -- T. De Fernex, E. Lupercio, T. Nevins, and B. Uribe; title: On classifying spaces for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups -- D. Juan-Pineda and I. J. Leary -- Symmetric products of two dimensional complexes / -- S. Kallel and P. Salvatore -- Block bundle obstruction to Kervaire invariant one / -- K. Y. Lam and D. Randall; title: Upper bounds for the span of projective Stiefel manifolds -- P. Sankaran and P. Zvengrowski; title: On Zb2s-equivariant loop spaces-- M. A. Xicoténcatl