作者简介 作者于1967年在巴黎大学,在 Henri Cartan 和Alexander Grothendieck指导下获得数学专业博士学位,博士毕业后在strasbourg大学任讲师,直到1972年。然后成为巴黎第七大学的正教授,直到2007年。目前是巴黎第七大学的荣誉退休教授。
目录 Summary of the Book by Sections Chapter I.Vector Bundles 1.Quasi-Vector Bundles 2.Vector Bundles 3.Clutching Theorems 4.Operations on Vector Bundles 5.Sections of Vector Bundles 6.Algebraic Properties of the Category of Vector Bundles 7.Hornotopy Theory of Vector Bundles 8.Metrics and Forms on Vector Bundles 9.Exercises 10.Historical Note Chapter II.First Notions of K-Theory 1.The Grothendieck Group of a Category The Group K(X) 2.The Grothendieck Group of a Functor.The Group K(X, Y) 3.The Group K-1 of a Banach Category.The Group K- t(X) 4.The Groups K-n(X) and K-n(X, Y) 5.Multiplicative Structures 6.Exercises 7.Historical Note Chapter III.Bott Periodicity 1.Periodicity in Complex K-Theory 2.First Applications of Bott Periodicity Theorem in Complex K-Theory 3.Clifford Algebras 4.The Functors Kp,q(Ψ) and Kp,q(X) 5.The Functors KPq(X, Y) and the Isomorphism t.Periodicity in Real K-Theory 6.Proof of the Fundamental Theorem 7.Exercises 8.Historical Note Chapter IV.Computation of Some K-Groups 1.The Thom Isomorphism in Complex" K-Theory for Complex Vector Bundles 2.Complex K-Theory of Complex Projective Spaces and Complex Pro-jective Bundles 3.Complex K-Theory of Flag Bundles and Grassmann Bundles.K-Theoryof a Product 4.Complements in Clifford Algebras 5.The Thom Isomorphism in Real and Complex K-Theory for Real Vector Bundles 6.Real and Complex K-Theory of Real Projective Spaces and Real Pro-jective Bundles 7.Operations in K-Theory 8.Exercises 9.Historical Note Chapter V.Some Applications of K-Theory 1.H-Space Structures on Spheres and the Hopf Invariant 2.The Solution of the Vector Field Problem on the Sphere 3.Characteristic Classes and the Chern Character 4.The Riemann-Roch Theorem and Integrality Theorems 5.Applications of K-Theory to Stable Homotopy 6.Historical Note Bibliography List of Notation Index
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