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The Novikov Conjecture : Geometry and Algebra
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ISBN: 3764371412 0817671412 9783764371418 3764373156 Year: 2005 Volume: 33 Publisher: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser,

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These lecture notes contain a guided tour to the Novikov Conjecture and related conjectures due to Baum-Connes, Borel and Farrell-Jones. They begin with basics about higher signatures, Whitehead torsion and the s-Cobordism Theorem. Then an introduction to surgery theory and a version of the assembly map is presented. Using the solution of the Novikov conjecture for special groups some applications to the classification of low dimensional manifolds are given.

Noncommutative differential geometry and its applications to physics : proceedings of the workshop at Shonan, Japan, June 1999
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ISBN: 0792369300 9401038295 9401007047 9780792369301 Year: 2001 Volume: 23 Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston ; London : Kluwer academic publishers,

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Noncommutative differential geometry is a new approach to classical geometry. It was originally used by Fields Medalist A. Connes in the theory of foliations, where it led to striking extensions of Atiyah-Singer index theory. It also may be applicable to hitherto unsolved geometric phenomena and physical experiments. However, noncommutative differential geometry was not well understood even among mathematicians. Therefore, an international symposium on commutative differential geometry and its applications to physics was held in Japan, in July 1999. Topics covered included: deformation problems, Poisson groupoids, operad theory, quantization problems, and D-branes. The meeting was attended by both mathematicians and physicists, which resulted in interesting discussions. This volume contains the refereed proceedings of this symposium. Providing a state of the art overview of research in these topics, this book is suitable as a source book for a seminar in noncommutative geometry and physics.

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