Algebraic Topology Waterloo 1978 [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the Canadian Mathematical Society, NSERC (Canada), and the University of Waterloo, June 1978 / edited by Peter Hoffman, Victor Snaith.

The structure of odd L-groups -- The surgery group L 3 h (Z(G)) for G a finite 2-group -- Whitehead torsion for PL fiber homotopy equivalences -- Localization in quadratic L-theory -- K2(Z[Z/5]) is generated by relations among 2×2 matrices -- Surgery spaces: Formulae and structure -- Balanced splitings of semi-free actions on homotopy spheres -- Some examples of finite group actions -- The homotopy structure of finite group actions on spheres -- Addition of equivariant surgery obstructions -- Obstructions to realizing equivariant witt classes -- Stable G-smoothing -- Linear actions on friendly spaces -- The kunneth formula in equivariant K-theory -- Isotopy classes of periodic diffeomorphisms on spheres -- Original brown-peterson spectra -- Bp-operations and mappings of stunted complex projective spaces -- On the stable homotopy of symplectic classifying and thom spaces -- New applications of commutative algebra to brown-peterson homology -- The signature of symplectic and self-conjugate manifolds -- Homology isomorphisms -- An isomorphism between products of abelian groups -- Axiomatic homotopy theory -- Construction of mod p H-spaces II -- The mod 3 cohomology of the exceptional lie group E8 -- A counterexample to the transfer conjecture -- Infinite loop space theory revisited -- A J-homomorphism associated with a space of empty varieties (addenda and corrigenda to two papers on the J-homomorphism).