On Extending Free Group Actions on Spheres and a Conjecture of Iwasawa

DOI10.2307/1999124zbMath0521.57032MaRDI QIDQ3670205

Robert Geist, Frank Connolly

Publication date: 1982

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1999124

zbMATH Keywords

Reidemeister torsion; Iwasawa's conjecture; extending actions to larger groups; free action of a finite cyclic group on a sphere; image of the transfer; norms in algebraic integer rings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57S25: Groups acting on specific manifolds

57S17: Finite transformation groups

11R18: Cyclotomic extensions

57Q10: Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc.

18F25: Algebraic (K)-theory and (L)-theory (category-theoretic aspects)

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