On the cobordism classification of manifolds with \(\mathbb{Z}/p\)-action whose fixed-point set has trivial normal bundle (Q1848085)

This paper determines the ideal in complex cobordism \(\Omega ^U_*\) of stably complex manifolds admitting a \({\mathbb Z}/p\)-action, \(p\) a prime, for which the normal bundle to each fixed component is trivial. It generalizes a result of \textit{P. E. Conner} and \textit{E. E. Floyd} [Differentiable Periodic Maps, Springer (1964; Zbl 0125.40103)], Sect.~42, where it was assumed that the normal representations agree for all fixed components of the same dimension. The main result is that an element in \(\Omega ^U_*\) is contained in that ideal if and only if, for every \(\omega = (i_1,\dots ,i_r)\) with each \(i_j\) divisible by \(p-1\), all characteristic numbers \(s_{\omega}(\sigma)\) are divisible by \(p\). The proofs rely on heavy calculations using the formal group law for complex cobordism.