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A survey of Wall's finiteness obstruction

Steve Ferry, Andrew Ranicki

math.ATarXiv:math/0008070

Abstract

Wall's finiteness obstruction is an algebraic K-theory invariant which decides if a finitely dominated space is homotopy equivalent to a finite CW complex. The object of this survey is to describe the invariant (which was first formulated in 1965) and some of its many applications to the surgery classification of manifolds.

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