Automorphisms of manifolds
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This survey is about homotopy types of spaces of automorphisms of topological and smooth manifolds. Most of the results available are relative, i.e., they compare different types of automorphisms. In chapter 1, which motivates the later chapters, we introduce our favorite types of manifold automorphisms and make a comparison by (mostly elementary) geometric methods. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 describe algebraic models (involving L–theory and/or algebraic K–theory) for certain spaces of “structures” associated with a manifold M , that is, spaces of other manifolds sharing some geometric features with M . The algebraic models rely heavily on
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