Local surgery and applications to the theory of quadratic forms
Local surgery and applications to the theory of quadratic forms
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局部手术及其在二次形式理论中的应用
DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9904-1976-13992-4
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1976
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W. Pardon
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作者:
W. Pardon
Let A be a unitary ring with involution and let L^(A) denote the surgery obstruction group in dimension n, defined by C. T. C. Wall in Chapters 5 and 6 of [13], for surgery to a homotopy equivalence. In this note a new local surgery theory [8], [9] is used to produce a localization sequence for Wall's L -groups (cf. Example 2 following Theorem 1). This sequence, together with a MayerVietoris sequence derived from Sharpe's unitary periodicity for KUt, 0 < / < 2, can be used to make computations which include and extend many of the results of Bak [1], Bass [2], Karoubi [6], and Wall [14]. The approach we outline to the determination of surgery obstructions should be more accessible to topologists than other recent treatments, because the analysis involves only two nontrivial but essentially geometric tools: the localization sequence and the Mayer-Vietoris sequence. The first can be realized geometrically in the case of group rings; the second involves a formal construction in algebraic /^-theory, together with Sharpe's study of the unitary Steinberg group, which can also be realized geometrically [in. The localization sequence. Let A be a ring with involution and A a classical ring of quotients with respect to a multiplicative subset 2 Ç A , Five terms (starting with L%k+l(A)) °^ ^ following localization sequence have been obtained by Karoubi [6] independently.