Manifolds with singularities accepting a metric of positive scalar curvature

Geometry and Topology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2001, Pages 683-718

  Botvinnik, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

A(1) modules; Adams spectral sequence; Characteristic classes in K theory; Cobordism with singularities; Dirac operator; K theory with singularities; Manifolds with singularities; Positive scalar curvature; Spin cobordism; Spin manifolds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037945052     PISSN: 14653060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/gt.2001.5.683     Document Type: Article

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