Algebraic Topology Aarhus 1978 [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Symposium held at Aarhus, Denmark, August 7–12, 1978 / edited by Johan Louis Dupont, Ib Henning Madsen.

Decompositions of loop spaces and applications to exponents -- On the Bi-stable J-homomorphism -- Some homotopy classes generated by ?j -- Applications and generalizations of the approximation theorem -- Mod p decompositions of H-spaces; another approach -- Complete intersections and the Kervaire invariant -- Bounds for characteristic numbers of flat bundles -- Exotic characteristic classes of spherical fibrations -- On the (n+1)-tuple points of immersed n-spheres -- Isotopy classification of spheres in a manifold -- Homotopy rigidity of sturdy spaces -- The geometry of Mahowald orientations -- Desuspension in the symmetric L-groups -- Product formulae for surgery obstructions -- Algebraic K-theory and flat manifolds -- Topological classifications of S?2 space forms -- C*-Algebras and K-theory -- The total surgery obstruction -- On the equivalence of the two definitions of the algebraic k-theory of a topological space -- First quadrant spectral sequences in algebraic K-theory -- Algebraic K-theory of topological spaces. II -- Pseudo-free actions, I -- Semi-linear group actions on spheres: Dimension functions -- P-free linear representations of p-solvable finite groups -- Orientation preserving involutions -- Obstructions to equivariance -- Symplectic lie group actions -- Free compact group actions on products of spheres -- Three theorems in transformation groups -- Homotopy type of G spheres -- Finding framed ?p actions on exotic spheres -- The rational homotopy groups of Diff (M) and Homeo (Mn) in the stability range -- A counterexample on the oozing problem for closed manifolds -- Remarks on Novikov's conjecture and the topological-euclidean space form problem -- Isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of (k-1)-connected almost-parallelizable 2k-manifolds -- Inefficiently embedded surfaces in 4-manifolds -- Local surgery: Foundations and applications.