When are topologically equivalent orthogonal transformations linearly equivalent?

DOI10.1007/BF01394060zbMath0505.57016OpenAlexW2073470303MaRDI QIDQ1836434

William L. Pardon, Wu-Chung Hsiang

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142936

zbMATH Keywords

representationReidemeister torsiontransformation grouporbit spacesAtiyah-Singer G- signature formulalinearly equivalent orthogonal transformationsp.l. block-bundle maptopologically equivalent orthogonal transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Obstruction theory in algebraic topology (55S35) Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Microbundles and block bundles (57Q50)

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