The Grothendieck group of spheres with semilinear actions for a compact Lie group (Q1764676): Difference between revisions

Let \(G\) be a compact Lie group. A smooth \(G\)-action on a homotopy sphere \(M\) is said to be semilinear if for each closed subgroup \(H\) of \(G\) the fixed point set \(M^H\) is a homotopy sphere (the empty set is considered as a (-1)-dimensional sphere). A \(G\)-disk \(D\) is called quasilinear if the fixed point set \(D^H\) is a disk or the empty set, for each closed subgroup \(H\) of \(G\). The author studies semilinear \(G\)-spheres bounding quasilinear \(G\)-disks and the Grothendieck group \(V_e(G)\), where \(e\) is an idempotent of the Burnside ring represented by a quasilinear \(G\)-disk. The author shows that \(V_e(G)\) is isomorphic to \(JO(G)\), the Grothendieck group of linear \(G\)-spheres. Both \(V_e(G)\) and \(JO(G)\) can be regarded as subgroups of the homotopy representation group \(V^\infty (G)\). The author shows that \(V_e(G)\) and \(JO(G)\) are different subgroups of \(V^\infty (G)\).