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The structure set of an arbitrary space, the algebraic surgery exact sequence and the total surgery obstruction

arXiv:math/0111316

Abstract

An introduction to the applications of algebraic surgery to the structure theory of high-dimensional topological manifolds.

20 pages. Notes of lecture given at the Summer School on High-dimensional Manifold Topology, ICTP Trieste, May-June 2001. To appear in Vol. 1 of the Proceedings

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