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This book presents a definitive account of the applications of the algebraic L-theory to the surgery classification of topological manifolds. The central result is the identification of a manifold structure in the homotopy type of a Poincarè duality space with a local quadratic structure in the chain homotopy type of the universal cover.Ranicki, A. A. is the author of 'Algebraic L-Theory and Topological Manifolds' with ISBN 9780521420242 and ISBN 0521420245.
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