Geometric Topology: Proceedings of the Geometric Topology Conference held at Park City, Utah, February 19–22, 1974

Decompositions and absolute neighborhood retracts....Pages 1-5
A short proof of a kirby flattening theorem....Pages 6-8
General position and algebraic independence....Pages 9-15
Vertical general position....Pages 16-41
Semicellular sets in crumpled cubes....Pages 42-57
Free spheres with mapping cylinder neighborhoods....Pages 58-65
Taming cell-like embedding relations....Pages 66-118
Some non-continuous functions and pseudo-flattenings....Pages 119-121
Homotopic homeomorphisms of Hilbert cube manifolds....Pages 122-136
A homotopy theoretic approach to lie groups....Pages 137-141
On the absence of tame disks in certain wild cells....Pages 142-155
A summary of results and problems concerning flatness of codimension one spheres in E n ....Pages 156-165
S 1 cross a UV decomposition of S 3 yields S 1 ×S 3 ....Pages 166-194
Demension theory, I....Pages 195-211
Automorphisms of circle bundles over surfaces....Pages 212-214
On mildly cellular pseudo cells....Pages 215-224
Almost all simply connected closed surfaces are rigid....Pages 225-239
Semifree group actions and homology spheres....Pages 240-244
Approximating stratum preserving CE maps between CS sets by stratum preserving homeomorphisms....Pages 245-250
One sided incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds....Pages 251-258
A local factorization theorem for arcs with finite penetration index....Pages 259-275
Regular Z n -actions....Pages 276-282
Roots, relations and centralizers in three-manifold groups....Pages 283-309
Normal bundles for codimension 2 locally flat imbeddings....Pages 310-324
The čech homology of compact connected abelian topological groups with applications to shape theory....Pages 325-331
k-Sphere mappings on S 2k+1 ....Pages 332-335
Codimension 1 foliations on manifolds with even index....Pages 336-338
The residual finiteness of the groups of classical knots....Pages 339-342
Cutting off homotopies on acyclic sets....Pages 343-352
Homotopy groups of automorphism spaces....Pages 353-364
On codimension two embeddings....Pages 365-370
A codimension two taming theorem....Pages 371-394
Semifree group actions and surgery on PL homology manifolds....Pages 395-414
A surgical view of Alexander’s polynomial....Pages 415-423
A summation: The compacta X in S n for which Sh (X)= Sh (S k ) is equivalent to S n −X≈S n −S k ....Pages 424-426
Locally homotopically unknotted embeddings of manifolds in codimension two....Pages 427-430
Spines and spinelessness....Pages 431-440
Monotone mappings and degree one mappings between PL manifolds....Pages 441-459