Index of Notation

Notations are listed in order of occurrence. References are given by section or

subsection rather than page number. Section numbers are printed in the heading on
the inside of each page.

second Stiefel-Whitney class, ' ' ends of ( - ) , 7.3.

1.3, 1.9.
intersection number, 1.7.
selfintersection number, 1.7.
'; Euler number of u, 1.7.
involution on group ring 1.7
connected sum
of surfaces, 1.8.
of 4-manifolds, 1.9.
transverse sphere, 1.9.
endpoint compactification, 3.8.
; distance between relations,
4.5.
closure.
singular image of a map, 4.6.
a 4-manifold, 10.1, 10.4.
; Kirby-Siebenmann invariant
8.3D, 10.2B.
-disk bundle of vector bundle E.
, 4-manifold with form 10.1.
roc(—); Rochlin invariant of spin 3-
manifolds, 10.2B.
mapping cylinder of h.
10.5A.
-connected sum, 10.7A.
Kerviare-Milnor invariant,
10.8A.
S t o p ; manifold structure set, 11.3.
JVMTOP; normal map set, 11.3.
Wall surgery group, 11.3.

Index of Terminology

Accessory disks, 3.1. Capped

Alexander isotopy, 9.3B. surface, 2.1.
Algebraic transverse sphere, 1.9. grope, 2.4.
Almost smoothing, 8.8. tower, 3.2.
Annulus conjecture, 8.1. Compactly supported
Aspherical, 11.5. bordism, 11.9B.
s-cobordism, 5.3, 11.1.
Bing double, 4.2, 12.2A. Concordance
Body, of embeddings, 10.5A
of a capped surface, 2.1. of group actions, 11.10D.
of a capped grope, 2.4. Conelike (fixed point), 11.10A.
of a capped tower, 3.2. Connected (n-), 8.3C.