Involution number sequence and dimensions of the components in fixed point set of an involution. II (Q1201644)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 98076
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    Involution number sequence and dimensions of the components in fixed point set of an involution. II
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 98076

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      Involution number sequence and dimensions of the components in fixed point set of an involution. II (English)
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      17 January 1993
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      [For Part I see ibid. 34, No. 11, 1302-1306 (1991; Zbl 0784.57021).] The authors prove: Given any smooth unfree involution on \((S^ 1)^ n\) the fixed-point set of the involution must be constant dimensional. In order to show this they compute the total Stiefel-Whitney classes \(W(\mathbb{R}^ m (\tau))\) by comparing them with \(W(\mathbb{R}^ m (\tau_ i))\), where \(\tau\) is the given involution and \(\tau_ i\), \(i=1,\dots,n\), are particular involutions on \((S^ 1)^ n\). Finally the computation of \(W(\overline T_ m (S^ 1)^ n)\), where \(\overline T_ m (S^ 1)^ n\) is the tangent bundle along the fibre of \(\mathbb{R}^ m (\tau)\), leads to the result.
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      Leray-Hirsch theorem
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      smooth unfree involution on \((S^ 1)^ n\)
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      fixed- point set
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      total Stiefel-Whitney classes
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