Download or read book Novikov Conjectures, Index Theorems, and Rigidity: Volume 2 written by Steven C. Ferry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Novikov Conjecture is the single most important unsolved problem in the topology of high-dimensional non-simply connected manifolds. These two volumes are the outgrowth of a conference held at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Germany) in September, 1993, on the subject of `Novikov Conjectures, Index Theorems and Rigidity'. They are intended to give a snapshot of the status of work on the Novikov Conjecture and related topics from many points of view: geometric topology, homotopy theory, algebra, geometry, analysis.