Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 3
4. PART I. EMBEDDINGS OF DISKS
5. CHAPTER 1. BASIC TOOLS 11
6. CHAPTER 2. CAPPED GROPES 30
7. CHAPTER 3. CAPPED TOWERS 48
8. CHAPTER 4. PARAMETERIZATION OF CONVERGENT TOWERS 62
9. CHAPTER 5. THE EMBEDDING THEOREMS 85
10. CHAPTER 6. EMBEDDING UP TO S-COBORDISM 92
11. PART II. APPLICATIONS TO THE STRUCTURE OF MANIFOLDS
12. INTRODUCTION 99
13. CHAPTER 7. h-COBORDISMS 101
14. CHAPTER 8. SMOOTH STRUCTURES 114
15. CHAPTER 9. HANDLEBODIES, NORMAL BUNDLES, AND TRANSVERSALITY 134
16. CHAPTER 10. CLASSIFICATIONS AND EMBEDDINGS 161
17. CHAPTER 11. SURGERY 195
18. CHAPTER 12. LINKS, AND REFORMULATIONS OF THE EMBEDDING PROBLEM 232
19. REFERENCES 249
20. Index of Notation 257
21. Index of Terminology 257