Author(s): Wu-chung Hsiang (auth.), Katsuo Kawakubo (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1375
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1989
Language: English
Pages: 398
City: Berlin; New York
Tags: Group Theory and Generalizations
A personal perspective of differentiable transformation groups....Pages 1-5
Smooth SL(2,C) actions on the 3-sphere....Pages 6-15
"On finite domination and simple homotopy type of nonsimply-connected G-spaces"....Pages 16-32
Modification of linking in representation forms....Pages 33-41
Linking in cyclic representation forms....Pages 42-47
The abhyankar-moh problem in dimension 3....Pages 48-59
The generalized whitehead torsion of a g fibre homotopy equivalence....Pages 60-88
Circle actions on symplectic manifolds....Pages 89-97
The isomorphism class of a representation of a compact lie group is determined by the equivariant simple-homotopy type of the representation....Pages 98-110
The equivariant whitehead torsions of equivariant homotopy equivalences between the unit spheres of representations of cyclic groups....Pages 111-125
On the characteristic numbers of unitary semi-free S 1 -manifolds....Pages 126-131
Conformal circle actions on 3-manifolds....Pages 132-144
Untwisted deform-spun knots: Examples of symmetry-spun 2-knots....Pages 145-167
On some abelian complex reflection groups....Pages 168-182
G-s -cobordism theorems do not hold in general for many compact lie groups G ....Pages 183-190
Congruences for the burnside ring....Pages 191-197
The pontrjagin numbers of an orbit map and generalized G-signature theorem....Pages 198-206
Seifert manifolds modelled on principal bundles....Pages 207-215
Equivariant pseudo-isotopies and K −I ....Pages 216-230
A product formula for connected sum....Pages 231-239
Most of the standard spheres have one fixed point actions of A 5 ....Pages 240-258
Semilinear G-spheres and homotopy representation groups....Pages 259-268
Connective K-theory of elementary abelian groups....Pages 269-275
Normal representations over the connected components of fixed point sets....Pages 276-290
Realization of the symmetry groups of links....Pages 291-306
Pontryagin numbers and periodic diffeomorphisms of spheres....Pages 307-318
Actions by isometries....Pages 319-325
Free actions by p-groups on products of spheres and yagita’s invariant po(G)....Pages 326-338
On extensions of non-linear actions on spheres....Pages 339-346
Symmetries of simply-connected four-manifolds, especially algebraic surfaces....Pages 347-367
The ring structure of U*(Z p )....Pages 368-380
Fixed-point free SU(n)-actions....Pages 381-394