Differential manifolds

Academic Press

1993

xvi, 248 p.

Pure and applied mathematics ; 138

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index

9780124218505

Differentiable structures -- Immersions, imbeddings, submanifolds -- Normal bundle and tubular neighborhoods -- transversality -- Foliations -- Operations on manifolds -- Handle presentation theorem -- The h-cobordism theorem -- Framed manifolds -- Surgery

Focusing on differential topology, this book discusses such topics as the study and classification of smooth structures on manifolds; the elements of theory and introduction to the method of surgery; the foundations of differential topology; and the Pontagrin construction

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