Synopses & Reviews
Contains a combination of selected papers given in honour of John Frank Adams which illustrate the profound influence that he had on algebraic topology.
Table of Contents
The work of J. F. Adams; Bibliography; Twisted tensor products of DGAs and the Adams-Hilton model for the total space of a fibration; Hochschild homology, cyclic homology and the cobar construction; Hermitian A∞-rings and their K-theory; A splitting result for the second homology of the general linear group; Low dimensional spinor representations, Adams maps and geometric dimension; The characteristic for the exceptional Lie groups; How can you tell two spaces apart when they have the same n-type for all n?; A generalised Grothendieck spectral sequence; Localisation of the axes of pairings; Fibrewise reduced product spaces; Computing homotopy types using crossed n-cubes of groups; On orthogonal pairs in categories and localization; A note on extensions of nil-potent groups; On the Swan subgroup of metacyclic groups; Fields of spaces; Maps between p-completed classifying spaces, III; Retracts of classifying spaces; On the dimension theory of dominant summands.