TY - BOOK AU - Rothenberg,Melvin AU - Farber,Michael AU - L�uck,Wolfgang AU - Weinberger,Shmuel ED - International Conference on Topology TI - Tel Aviv Topology Conference, Rothenberg festschrift: International Conference on Topology, June 1-5, 1998, Tel Aviv T2 - Contemporary mathematics, SN - 9780821878224 (online) AV - QA611.A1 I53 1998 U1 - 514 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Providence, R.I. PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Topology KW - Congresses N1 - Dedicated to Mel Rothenberg on the occasion of his 65th birthday; Includes bibliographical references; Vanishing theorems on covering manifolds; Maxim Braverman --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03349; The Sunada method; Robert Brooks --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03350; Relative torsion for homotopy triangulations; D. Burghelea, L. Friedlander and T. Kappeler --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03351; Non-linear similarity and linear similarity are equivariant below dimension $6$; Sylvain Cappell and Julius Shaneson --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03352; Massey products and critical points; Michael Farber --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03353; Absolute torsion; Michael Farber and Vladimir Turaev --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03354; Signatures of links and finite type invariants of cyclic branched covers; Stavros Garoufalidis --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03355; The relation between compact and non-compact equivariant cobordisms; Viktor L. Ginzburg, Victor L. Guillemin and Yael Karshon --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03356; Volume of Riemannian manifolds, geometric inequalities, and homotopy theory; Mikhail G. Katz and Alexander I. Suciu --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03357; Pure braids, a new subgroup of the mapping class group and finite-type invariants of $3$-manifolds; Jerome Levine --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03358; Novikov-Shubin invariants for arbitrary group actions and their positivity; Wolfgang L�uck, Holger Reich and Thomas Schick --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03359; Differential operator endomorphisms of an Euler-Lagrange complex; Martin Markl and Steve Shnider --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03360; $K$-theory of twisted group $C^*$-algebras and positive scalar curvature; Varghese Mathai --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03361; Equivariant orientations and Thom isomorphisms; J. P. May --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03362; Algorithmic aspects of homeomorphism problems; Alexander Nabutovsky and Shmuel Weinberger --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03363; The $G$-signature theorem revisited; Jonathan Rosenberg --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03364; A sequence of connections and a characterization of K�ahler manifolds; Mikhail Shubin --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03365; New invariants for surfaces; Mina Teicher --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03366; The arithmeticity of groups of automorphisms of spaces; Georgia Triantafillou --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03367; Nonlinear averaging, embeddings, and group actions; Shmuel Weinberger --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03368; Higher $\rho $-invariants; Shmuel Weinberger --; http://www.ams.org/conm/231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231/03369; Access is restricted to licensed institutions; Electronic reproduction; Providence, Rhode Island; American Mathematical Society; 2012 UR - http://www.ams.org/conm/231/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/231 ER -