The algebraic theory of Kreck surgery
Algebraic Topology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In the 1980s Matthias Kreck developed a modified surgery theory with obstructions in a hardly understood monoid . This paper presents a couple of purely algebraic tools to find out whether an element in is "elementary" i.e. whether a Kreck surgery problem leads to an -cobordism or not.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0404383,
title = {The algebraic theory of Kreck surgery},
author = {Jörg Sixt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0404383},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
112 pages. Taken from the author's 2004 Edinburgh University doctoral thesis. See also http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~sixt