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