November 18, 2015 1100-1235 Ross building, Seminar Room 70A
Lara Simone Suárez
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Whitehead torsion and s-cobordism theorem
Abstract:
We will give a beginner's introduction to simple homotopy theory and explain how it applies to prove the s-cobordism theorem,
a generalization of the h-cobordism theorem for non-simply-connected h-cobordisms.