Symmetry groups of four-manifolds

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(01)00006-4zbMATH Open1022.57009arXivmath/9907180OpenAlexW2049040335MaRDI QIDQ1601665FDOQ1601665

Authors: Michael P. McCooey 

Publication date: 27 June 2002

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If a (possibly finite) compact Lie group acts effectively, locally linearly, and homologically trivially on a closed, simply-connected four-manifold with second Betti number at least three, then it must be isomorphic to a subgroup of S^1 x S^1, and the action must have nonempty fixed-point set. Our results strengthen and complement recent work by Edmonds, Hambleton and Lee, and Wilczynski, among others. Our tools include representation theory, finite group theory, and Borel equivariant cohomology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9907180

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetryequivariant cohomologygroup actionsfour-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Finite transformation groups (57S17) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Cohomology of groups (20J06)

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