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Expository material on the Gromov-Lawson surgery theorem
I am looking for an expository text on the paper "The classification of simply connected
manifolds of positive scalar curvature" by Gromov and Lawson, in particular on the proof of Theorem A....
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Is spin cobordism an invariant for surgery of codimension $q\ge3$?
Recall that a surgery of codimension $q$ on an $n$-manifold $X$ is a modification of $X$ of the following type. Let $\Sigma^{n-q}\subset X$ be a smoothly embedded $(n-q)$-sphere with a trivialized ...