Equivariant degree for abelian actions. II: Index computations (Q1380882)

The paper is devoted to the study of the equivariant degree for Abelian actions. It is a second part of previous investigations of the authors [\textit{J. Ize} and \textit{A. Vignoli}, ibid. 2, No. 2, 367-413 (1993; Zbl 0815.58004)]. Section 0 is essentially a collection of results from part I. In Section 1, the authors refine some results from part I related to the action of tours that allow them to recover some well-known results due to W. Marzantowicz. In Section 2, they show that in some cases the computation of the \(\Gamma\)-degree may be reduced to the computation of the classical degree of the corresponding Poincaré sections. In Section 3, they compute the index of isolated orbits. As a consequence, they obtain interesting global bifurcation results involving period doubling phenomena. In Section 4, the authors apply these degree computations to Borsuk-Ulam type theorems. Section 5 deals with the index of isolated loops of stationary solutions and its applications to abstract Hopf bifurcation. Section 6 treats the problem of symmetry breaking products and composition of mappings.