On periodic homeomorphisms of spheres (Q5942401)

The authors give natural lower estimates for metric data of orbits of a \(p\)-periodic homeomorphism \(h\) acting on the unit sphere \(S^n\) in the Euclidean \((n+1)\)-space. These are the shift \(\|h\|=\sup_{x\in S^n}\|h(x)- x\|\) and the maximal diameter \(\theta(h)\) of \(h\)-orbits. The bounds occurring herein are the following: \(\rho_p\) is the length of the side of a regular \(p\)-gon inscribed in the unit circle \(S^1\), \(d_p\) is the diameter of this \(p\)-gon, \(t_n\) is the edge length of the regular \((n+1)\)-simplex inscribed in \(S^n\).