Date:
Tue, 02/04/2013 - 10:30 - 12:00
The starting point is Freedman's disc theorem for 4-manifolds with "good" fundamental group. This has two immediate consequences: The topological s-cobordism theorem and topological surgery in dimension 4. The first reduces the topological classification to the classification up to s-cobordism, the second can be used in constructing topological 4-manifolds. I will introduce into my modified surgery theory which allows a simplified approach to both problems.