Obstructions to propagation of group actions (Q2563699)

The most basic questions in the theory of transformation groups involve understanding which manifolds admit group actions and to what extent one can vary the basic invariants of an action on a given manifold. These problems are nowhere near a complete resolution. When we restrict our attention to finite groups, we encounter a fundamental phenomenon in the subject that goes back to the early work of P. A. Smith. It is possible to obtain homotopical information concerning the action quite well at the order of the group. Away from the order of the group, the relationships tend to be much coarser. With propagation and replacement, one tries to systematically study the homological phenomenon just described. That is, we try to understand when manifolds with the same \(\mathbb{Z}/ |\pi|\)-homological type have the same theory of \(\pi\)-actions, and we try to analyze the extent to which manifolds which are of the same \(\mathbb{Z}/ |\pi |\)-homological type can be interchanged as fixed sets.