MTH 3821 - Readings in Topology

Course Information

Course:	MTH 3821, Readings in Topology
Instructor:	Alex Suciu
Time and Place:	Tue. and Th. 2:00 -- 3:00 PM, in 441 LA
Office Hours:	By appointment
Prerequisites:	MTH 3102, MTH 3105, MTH 3107, MTH 3411.

Course Description

We study Whitehead torsion and Reidemeister torsion, and how they apply in a variety of topological and analytical settings. Reading list:

• John Milnor, Whitehead torsion, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (1966), 358--426.
• Marshall Cohen, A Course in Simple Homotopy Theory, GTM vol. 10, Springer-Verlag, New-York, 1973.
• Vladimir Turaev, Reidemeister torsion in knot theory, Russian Math. Surveys 41 (1986), 119--182.
• David Fried, Lefschetz formulas for flows, Contemporary Math. 58 (1987), 19--69.
• Paul Kirk and Chuck Livingston, Twisted Alexander invariants, Reidemeister torsion, and the Casson-Gordon invariants, to appear in Topology

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Created: July 22, 1998. Last modified: August 18, 1998.