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The Novikov Conjecture: Geometry and Algebra

A Motivating Problem.- to the Novikov and the Borel Conjecture.- Normal Bordism Groups.- The Signature.- The Signature Theorem and the Novikov Conjecture.- The Projective Class Group and the Whitehead Group.- Whitehead Torsion.- The Statement and Consequences of the s-Cobordism Theorem.- Sketch of the Proof of the s-Cobordism Theorem.- From the Novikov Conjecture to Surgery.- Surgery Below the Middle Dimension I: An Example.- Surgery Below the Middle Dimension II: Systematically.- Surgery in the Middle Dimension I.- Surgery in the Middle Dimension II.- Surgery in the Middle Dimension III.- An Assembly Map.- The Novikov Conjecture for ?n.- Poincare Duality and Algebraic L-Groups.- Spectra.- Classifying Spaces of Families.- Equivariant Homology Theories and the Meta-Conjecture.- The Farrell-Jones Conjecture.- The Baum-Connes Conjecture.- Relating the Novikov, the Farrell-Jones and the Baum-Connes Conjectures.- Miscellaneous.- Exercises.- Hints to the Solutions of the Exercises.

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