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Michael J. Hopkins.
Zakharevich, Inna (Inna Ilana)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
2012-09-27T15:26:51Z
2012-09-27T15:26:51Z
2012
2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73376
809689660
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2012.
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In this thesis we develop a version of classical scissors congruence theory from the perspective of algebraic K-theory. Classically, two polytopes in a manifold X are defined to be scissors congruent if they can be decomposed into finite sets of pairwise-congruent polytopes. We generalize this notion to an abstract problem: given a set of objects and decomposition and congruence relations between them, when are two objects in the set scissors congruent? By packaging the scissors congruence information in a Waldhausen category we construct a spectrum whose homotopy groups include information about the scissors congruence problem. We then turn our attention to generalizing constructions from the classical case to these Waldhausen categories, and find constructions for cofibers, suspensions, and products of scissors congruence problems.
by Inna Zakharevich.
Ph.D.
84 p.
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Scissors congruence and K-theory
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