The Hauptvermutung Book: A Collection of Papers on the Topology of Manifolds

by M.A. Armstrong, A.J. Casson, D.P. Sullivan, et al.

Book Overview

The Hauptvermutung is the conjecture that any two triangulations of a poly- hedron are combinatorially equivalent. The conjecture was formulated at the turn of the century, and until its resolution was a central problem of topology. Initially, it was verified for low-dimensional polyhedra, and it might have been expected that furt her development of high-dimensional topology would lead to a verification in all dimensions. However, in 1961 Milnor constructed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792341740
• ISBN13: 9780792341741
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"