nLab Larry Siebenmann

Laurence (or Laurent) Carl Siebenmann is a Canadian born mathematician who is based at Orsay (Paris sud). He is best known for his work in geometric topology.

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Selected writings

On the triangulation conjecture for topological manifolds:

• Robion C. Kirby, Laurent C. Siebenmann, On the triangulation of manifolds and the Hauptvermutung, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 75(4): 742-749 (July 1969) (euclid:1183530633)

and introducing the Kirby-Siebenmann invariantL

• Robion C. Kirby, Laurence C. Siebenmann: Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings and Triangulations, Princeton University Press (1977) [doi:10.1515/9781400881505, jstor:j.ctt1b9s024, pdf]

On homotopy spheres and the analogue of the Poincaré conjecture in dimension 4:

• Laurent Siebenmann: La conjecture de Poincaré topologique en dimension 4, Séminaire Bourbaki volume 1981/82, exposés 579-596, Astérisque, no. 92-93 (1982), Talk no. 588 [numdam:SB_1981-1982__24__219_0]

• Laurent Siebenmann (translation by M. H. Kim & M. Powell): Topological Poincaré conjecture in dimension 4 (the work of M. H. Freedman), Celebratio Mathematica [celebratio:752]

On Seifert 3-orbifolds:

• Francis Bonahon, Laurent C. Siebenmann: The classification of Seifert fibred 3-orbifolds, in: Low Dimensional Topology, Cambridge University Press (2010) 19-85 [doi:10.1017/CBO9780511662744.002]

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