Download or read book Classifying Spaces for Surgery and Corbordism of Manifolds. (AM-92), Volume 92 written by Ib Madsen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a general discussion of bordism, Professors Madsen and Milgram present the homotopy theory of the surgery classifying spaces and the classifying spaces for the various required bundle theories. The next part covers more recent work on the maps between these spaces and the properties of the PL and Top characteristic classes, and includes integrality theorems for topological and PL manifolds. Later chapters treat the integral cohomology of BPL and Btop. The authors conclude with a discussion of the PL and topological cobordism rings and a construction of the torsion-free generators.