Algebraic and Geometric Topology: Proceedings of a Conference held at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA, July 6-13, 1983 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

Semifree finite groups actions on compact manifolds.- Torsion in L-groups.- Higher diagonal approximations and skeletons of K(?, l)'s.- Lectures on groups of homotopy spheres.- Some remarks on local formulae for p1.- Evaluating the Swan finiteness obstruction for periodic groups.- The cappell-shaneson example.- A nonconnective delooping of algebraic K-theory.- Geometric algebra.- The algebraic theory of torsion I. Foundations.- Equivariant moore spaces.- Triviality of the involution on SK1 for periodic groups.- The involution in the algebraic K-theory of spaces.- Algebraic K-theory of spaces.- Oliver's formula and Minkowski's theorem.- Some nilpotent complexes.