TY - BOOK AU - Bousfield, A. K. AU - Kan, D. M. TI - Homotopy limits, completions and localizations SN - 9783540061052 AV - QA3 PY - 1987///] CY - USA PB - Springer N1 - I Completions and localizations 1. The R-completion of a space 2. Fibre lemmas 3. Tower lemmas 4. An R-completion of groups and its relation to the R-completion of spaces 5. R-localizations of nilpotent spaces 6. p-completions of nilpotent spaces 7. A glimpse at the R-completion of non-nilpotent spaces II Towers of fibrations, cosimplicial spaces and homotopy limits 8. Simplicial sets and topological spaces 9. Towers of fibrations 10. Cosimplicial spaces 11. Homotopy inverse limits 12. Homotopy direct limits N2 - The main purpose of part I of these notes is to develop for a ring R a functional notion of R-completion of a space X. For R=Zp and X subject to usual finiteness condition, the R-completion coincides up to homotopy, with the p-profinite completion of Quillen and Sullivan; for R a subring of the rationals, the R-completion coincides up to homotopy, with the localizations of Quillen, Sullivan and others. In part II of these notes, the authors have assembled some results on towers of fibrations, cosimplicial spaces and homotopy limits which were needed in the discussions of part I, but which are of some interest in themselves. ER -