Adams memorial symposium on algebraic topology. [Vol.1] 9780521420747, 0521420741

Table of contents :
Bibliography of J. F. Adams......Page 46
2 Twisted tensor products of DGA's and the Adams-Hilton model for the total space of a fibration......Page 53
3 Hochschild homology, cyclic homology and the cobar construction......Page 77
4 Hermitian Arings and their K-theory......Page 91
5 A splitting result for the second homology group of the general linear group......Page 107
6 Low dimensional spinor representations, Adams maps and geometric dimension......Page 113
7 The characteristic classes for the exceptional Lie groups......Page 127
8 How can you tell two spaces apart when they have the same n-type for all n?......Page 155
9 A generalized Grothendieck spectral sequence......Page 169
10 Localization of the homotopy set of the axes of pairings......Page 187
11 Fibrewise reduced product spaces......Page 203
12 Computing homotopy types using crossed n-cubes of groups......Page 211
13 On orthogonal pairs in categories and localization......Page 235
14 A note on extensions of nilpotent groups......Page 249
15 On the Swan subgroup of metacyclic groups......Page 259
16 Fields of spaces......Page 265
17 Maps between p-completed classifying spaces, III......Page 279
18 Retracts of classifying spaces......Page 295
19 On the dimension theory of dominant summands ......Page 305