Advances in Homotopy Theory : Papers in Honour of I M James, Cortona 1988 (Paperback)

Preface; Publications of I. M. James; 1. Homotopy fixed points in the algebraic K-theory of certain infinite discrete groups G. Carlsson; 2. Applications of loop spaces to some problems in topology F. R. Cohen; 3. Invariants spheres and critical points M. C. Crabb; 4. Bitangent spheres and critical points Duan H.-E. Rees; 5. The enveloping ring of a II-algebra W. G. Dwyer and D. M. Kan; 6. Cohomologie des groupes symetriques et application de Quillen J. H. Gunawardena, J. Lannes and S. Zarati; 7. Looping Massey-Peterson towers J. R. Harper and H. R. Miller; 8. Characters and elliptic cohomology M. J. Hopkins; 9. Self maps of H-spaces J. R. Hubbuck; 10. Character rings in algebraic topology N. J. Kuhn; 11. The rank filtration of Quillen's Q-construction S. A. Mitchell; 12. Obstruction theory and the strict associativity of Morava K-theories C. A. Robinson; 13. Loop groups and harmonic maps G. B. Segal; 14. An almost groupoid structure for the space of (open) strings and implications for string field theory J. D. Stasheff; 15. Steenrod squares of polynomials R. M. W. Wood.