Celebratio Mathematica

R. C. Kirby: Smooth­ing loc­ally flat im­bed­dings. Ph.D. thesis, Uni­versity of Chica­go, 1965. Ad­vised by S. E. Dyer. A short pa­per based on this work, with the same title, was pub­lished in Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 72:1 (1966). MR 2611548 phdthesis

R. C. Kirby: “On the an­nu­lus con­jec­ture,” Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1966), pp. 178–​185. MR 0192481 Zbl 0151.​32902

R. C. Kirby: “On the set of non-loc­ally flat points of a sub­man­i­fold of codi­men­sion one,” Ann. of Math. (2) 88 (1968), pp. 281–​290. MR 0236900

R. C. Kirby: “Stable homeo­morph­isms and the an­nu­lus con­jec­ture,” Ann. of Math. (2) 89 (1969), pp. 575–​582. MR 0242165 Zbl 0176.​22004

R. C. Kirby and L. C. Sieben­mann: Found­a­tion­al es­says on to­po­lo­gic­al man­i­folds, smooth­ings, and tri­an­gu­la­tions. An­nals of Math­em­at­ics Stud­ies 88. Prin­ceton Uni­versity Press, 1977. With notes by John Mil­nor and Mi­chael Atiyah. MR 0645390 Zbl 0361.​57004 book

R. Kirby: “A cal­cu­lus for framed links in \( S^{3} \),” In­vent. Math. 45 : 1 (1978), pp. 35–​56. MR 0467753 Zbl 0377.​55001

J. Harer, A. Kas, and R. Kirby: “Handle­body de­com­pos­i­tions of com­plex sur­faces,” Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 : 350 (1986), pp. iv+102. MR 849942