Daniel Henry Gottlieb's Mathematical Papers and Preprints

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RESEARCH INTERESTS (The numbers represent related papers.)

Combinatorics: 5

General Topology: 1, 2

Evaluation subgroups ( also known as Gottlieb groups): 3, 4, 8, 10, 39, 63

Evaluation maps: 11, 14, 63

Fibrations: 6, 7, 9, 13, 15, 16, 23, 24, 27

Transfers: 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 29, 31, 32, 42, 44, 45

Group actions: 26, 30, 41, 44

Classical Topology: 28, 46

Robotics: 33, 34, 35

Fixed point theory: 4, 36, 37, 42, 45, 60, 62, 63

Vector fields: 36, 37, 38, 40, 43, 46, 47, 52

Philosophical: 43, 57

Mathematical physics: 48, 49, 51, 58, 59, 61

History of Mathematics: 50, 53, 54, 55, 56





 PUBLICATIONS AND PREPRINTS


l.    Homotopy and isotopy properties of topological spaces. 
       Canadian J. Math. 16 (1964), 561-571.

2.  (with N. J. Rothman)  Contractibility of certain semigroups. 
       Bull, Amer. Math. Soc. 70 (1964), 756-757.

3.  A new invariant of homotopy type and some diverse applications
       Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 71 (1965), 517-518.

  4.   A certain subgroup of the fundamental group.
        Amer. J. Math. 87 (1965), 840-856.

  5.   A certain class of incidence matrices. 
        Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1966), 1233-1237.

  6.   On fibre spaces and the evaluation map. 
        Annals of Math. 87 (1968), 42-55.

7       Covering transformations and universal fibrations. 
         Ill. J. Math. 13 (1969), 432-438.


  8.  Evaluation subgroups of homotopy groups.   
       Amer. J. Math. 91 (1969), 729-756.

  9.  Correction to my paper "On fibre spaces and the evaluation map,"
       Annals of Math. 91 (1970), 640-642.

10 .  On the construction of G-spaces and applications to homogeneousspaces. 
       Cambridge Phil. Soc. 68 (1970), 321-327.

11.  The evaluation map and homology. 
       Mich. Math. J. 19 (1972), 189-197.

12.  Applications of bundle map theory. 
       Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 171 (1972), 23-50.

13.  Homology tangent bundles and universal bundles. 
       Proc. Amer. Math Soc. 36 (1972), 246-252.

14   Witnesses, transgression, and the evaluation map. 
       Indiana Math. J. 24 (1975), 825-836.

15.   The total space of universal fibrations. 
       Pacific J. Math. 46 (1973), 415-417.

16   (with J. C. Becker)  Coverings of fibrations. 
        Compositio Mathematica 26 (1973), 119-128.

17     Fibre bundles and the Euler characteristic. 
        J. Differential Geometry 10 (1975), 39-48.

18.  (with J. C. Becker)  The transfer maps and fibre bundles. 
       Topology 14 (1975), 1-12.


19   (with J. C. Becker)  Applications of the evaluation map and transfer map theorems. 
       Math.  Ann. 211 (1974), 277-288.

20.  (with Andrew Casson)  Fibrations with compact fibres. 
       Amer. J. Math. 99 (1977), 159-189.

21   (with J. C. Becker and Andrew Casson)  The Lefschetz number and fibre preserving maps. 
       Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 81 (1975), 425-427.

22   (with J. C. Becker)  Transfer maps for fibrations and duality.
       Compositio Mathematica 33 (1976), 107-133.

23   Fibre bundles with cross-sections and non-collapsing spectral sequences. 
       Ill. J. Math. 21 (1977), 176-177.

24    Fibering suspensions. 
        Houston J. of Math. 4 (1978), 49-65.

25   Partial Transfers.
        Geometric Applications of Homotopy Theory I. (1977)
        Lecture notes in Mathematics, #657, Springer Verlag, 255-266.

25x; partial transfer hand written addendum


26.   Lifting actions in fibrations. 
        Geometric Applications of Homotopy Theory I. (1977)
        Lecture notes in Mathematics, #657, Springer Verlag, 217-254.

27.   Poincare Duality and fibrations. 
        Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 76 (1979), 148-150.

28.  The Lefschetz number and Borsuk Ulam Theorems. 
        Pac. Journal 103 (1982), 29-37.

29.   Transfers, centers, and group cohomology. 
        Proc. A.M.S. 40 (1983), 157-162.

30.   (with K. B. Lee and M. Ozaydin)  Compact group actions and maps into K(\pi,1)-spaces. 
        Trans. of A.M.S. 287 (1985), 419-429.

31
.  The trace of an action and the degree of a map. 
        Trans. of A.M.S. 293 (1986), 381-410.

32   On realizing Nakaoka's coincidence point transfer as an S-map.
       Illinois J. of Math. 30 (1986), 689-695.


33
.  Robots and fibre bundles. 
       Bulletin de la Societe Mathematique de Belgique, 38 (1988), 219-223.


34
.  Robots and Topology,
       Proceedings 1986 IEEE International Conferenceon robotics and Automation, Volume 3, pp. 1689-1691.


35
.  Topology and the Robot Arm. 
       Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 11 (1988), 117-121.

36.   A de Moivre formula for fixed Point Theory,
        ATAS do 5 au Encontro Brasiliero de Topologia.
        Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, S.P. Brasil 31 (1988), 59-67.

37.   A de Moivre like formula for fixed point theory.
        Proceedings of the Fixed Point Theory Seminar at the 1986 International Congress of Mathematicians,
        R.F. Brown (editor), Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 72, 99-106, AMS Providence, Rhode Island.

38    On the index of pullback vector fields.  Proc. of the 2nd Siegen
        Topology Symposium, August 1987, Ulrich Koschorke (editor), Lecture Notes of Mathematics,
        Vol. 1350, 167-170, Springer Verlag, New York City, NY.

39    Splitting off tori and the evaluation subgroup of the fundamental group. 
        Israel J. of Math., 66 (1988), 216-222.

40.    Zeroes of pullback vector fields and fixed point theory for bodies.
        Algebraic Topology, Proc. of Intl. Conf. March 21-24, 1988,
        Contemporary Mathematics, 96, 163-180.

41    (with Giora Dula)  Splitting off H-spaces and Conner-Raymond
        Splitting Theorem.  J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sec IA, 37 (1990), 321-334.

42.   (with J.C. Becker)  Vector fields and transfers. 
        Manuscripta Mathematica, 72 (1991), 111-130.

43.   Lectures on Vector Fields and the Unity of Mathematics.
        Proceedings of the Topology and Geometry Research Center,
        ed. Jin Suk Pak and Chan-Young, 3 (1993), 87-114.

44.   (with Murad Ozaydin)  Intersection Numbers, Transfers, and Group Actions. 
        Topology and its Applications, 55 (1994), 87-100.

45.   (with Murad Ozaydin)  Group Actions and the Singular Set. 
        Topology and its Applications, 52 (1993), 51-59.

46.   Vector Fields and Classical Theorems of Topology. 
        Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico e Fisico, Milano, 60 (1990), 193-203.

47.   (with Geetha Samaranayake)  The Index of Discontinuous Vector Fields. 
        New York Journal of Mathematics, 1 (1994-95), 130-148.

48.   A Gravitational Lens Need Not Produce an Odd Number of Images. 
        J. Mathematical Physics, 35 (1994), 5507-5510.

49.   The Odd Image Theorem,
        Proceedings of the 7th Marcel Grossman Relativity Conference on Relativity,
        Stanford, July 1994, Part B; ed. R. T. Jantzen and G. Mac Keiser: 
        World Scientific, New Jersey; 1141-1143.

50.   All the Way with Gauss-Bonnet and the Sociology of Mathematics.
        American Mathematical Monthly, 103 (1996), 457-469.

50n Note on All The Way With Gauss-Bonnet and the Sociology of Mathematics.
American Math Monthly

51.   Skew Symmetric Bundle Maps. 
        Contemporary Mathematics, 220 (1998), 117-141.

52.   (with James C. Becker)  Spaces of Local Vector Fields. 
        Proceedings of the Vassar Conference Honoring Stasheff's 60th birthday,
        January 20, 1997, Comtemporary Mathematics, 227 (1999), 21-28.

53.   (with James C. Becker)  A History of Duality in Algebraic Topology.
        Chapter 25 of History of Topology, I. M. James, ed., Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1999, 725-745.

54.    Becker-Gottlieb Transfer,
         Encyclopedia of Mathematics suppliment, Volume I,
         Ed. in chief M. Hasewinkel, Kluwer Acad. Publishers, (1997), 89-90.

55.    Book review of "Poincare and the Three Body Problem" by June Barrow-Green.
         The American Mathematical Monthly, 106 (1999), 977-980.

56.    The Sullivan conjecture.
         Encyclopedia of Mathematics Supp., vol.-2., Ed. in chief M. Hasewinkel,
         Kluwer Acad. Publishers, (2000), 440-441.

57.    Topology and the Non-existence of Magnetic Monopoles,
         CUBO Matematica Educacional, Vol. 2 (May 2000), 101-121.

58.    Fields of Lorentz transformations on Space-Time. 
         Fixed Point Conference, Sao Paulo (1999),
         Topology and its Applications, 116, (2001), 102-122.  

59.    Eigenbundles, Quaternions, and Berry's Phase.
         Preprint:  math.AT/0304281

60.    Transfers and Periodic Orbits of Homeomorphisms. math-AT 0408403 (very similar to Transfers and Periodic Orbits of Homeomorphisms ala Bo Ju Jiang,
          Proceedings of the International Conference
          on Homotopy Theory and Related Topics, Seoul February 2-4 , 2004, Institute of
          of Science and Technology, Korea University, pp. 1--7)

61.     Maxwell's Equations, Preprint: ArXiv:math-ph /0409001



62.    (with Chen-Farng Benjamin) Fixed Point Indices and Manifolds with Collars, Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications, vol.2006
         Article ID 87657, 8 pages, 2006. Preprint:arXiv math.AT/0505230

63.   Self Coincidence Numbers and the Fundamental Group,   The Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (to appear),   Preprint: arXiv:math.AT/0702236v2