Chern and Pontryagin numbers in perfect symmetries of spheres (Q1382115)

A stably complex smooth manifold \(M\) is a smooth manifold \(M\) which has a smooth embedding into some Euclidean space such that the normal bundle of the embedding admits a complex structure. This paper contains the following results: Theorem A. Let \(G\) be a finite perfect group containing either cyclic subgroups of orders \(pq\), \(pr\), and \(qr\) for distinct primes \(p\), \(q\), \(r\), or cyclic subgroups of orders \(pq\) and \(rs\) for distinct primes \(p\), \(q\), \(r\). \(s\). Let \(M\) be a closed stably complex smooth manifold such that the connected components of \(M\) are simply connected and all have the same dimension \(\geq 0\). Then there exists a smooth action of \(G\) on a sphere containing \(M\) as the \(G\)-fixed point set. As a corollary, for each integer \(k\geq 0\), there exists a smooth action of \(G\) (\(G\) as in Theorem A) on a sphere with \(2k\)-dimensional (resp. \(4k\)-dimensional) \(G\)-fixed point set whose Chern (resp., Pontryagin) numbers are equal to the corresponding Chern (resp., Pontryagin) numbers of any given closed oriented smooth \(2k\)-dimensional (resp., \(4k\)-dimensional) manifold. The main ingredients used are equivariant thickening and equivariant surgery.