Geometry and Topology [electronic resource] : III Latin American School of Mathematics Proceedings of the School held at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada CNPg Rio de Janeiro July 1976 / edited by Jacob Palis, Manfredo do Carmo.

Evaluation of some Maunder cohomology operations -- Construction geometrique de certaines series discretes -- The point spectrum of the adjoint of an automorphism of a vector bundle -- Whitney duality and singularities of projections -- Orbit preserving diffeomorphisms and the stability of Lie group actions and singular foliations -- On minimal immersions with parallel normal curvature tensor -- Circle bundles -- A topology for the space of foliations -- Stability of compact foliations -- Secondary operations in K-theory and the generalized vector field problem -- On holomorphic solutions of certain kind of pfaffian systems with singularities -- Scattering problems in differential geometry -- The connected components of Morse-Smale vector fields on two manifolds -- Feuilletages En Cylindres -- Mesure de Lebesgue et Nombre de Rotation -- The Godbillon-Vey invariant of foliations by planes of T3 -- On the construction of the trace in serre duality -- Localization theories for groups and homotopy types -- On hyperbolic attractors of codimension one -- On Liénard's equation -- On the Weierstrass preparation theorem -- Reduction of semilinear parabolic equations to finite dimensional C1 flows -- Axiom a for endomorphisms -- Characterizations of AS diffeomorphisms -- Structural stability of integrable differential forms -- Accessibility of an optimum -- The scattering problem for some particle systems on the line -- Proof of a generalized from of a fixed point theorem due to G. D. Birkhoff -- Some developments on stability and bifurcations of dynamical systems -- Convexity and tightness of manifolds with boundary -- Existence of brake orbits in Finsler mechanical systems -- On the complex projective bundle construction -- Symmetries, conservation laws and variational principles -- Classification of generic quadratic vector fields with no limit cycles -- The classifying ring of SL(2, C) -- On the finite solvability of Plateau's problem -- The set of curves of uniqueness for Plateau's problem has a dense interior -- Geometric properties of generic differentiable manifolds -- A catastrophe model for the stability of ships -- Note on smoothing symplectic and volume preserving diffeomorphisms -- A simple proof of a generalization of a theorem by C. L. Siegel.