When are topologically equivalent orthogonal transformations linearly equivalent?

DOI10.1007/BF01394060zbMath0505.57016MaRDI QIDQ1836434

Wu-Chung Hsiang, William L. Pardon

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142936

zbMATH Keywords

representation; Reidemeister torsion; transformation group; orbit spaces; Atiyah-Singer G- signature formula; linearly equivalent orthogonal transformations; p.l. block-bundle map; topologically equivalent orthogonal transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57S25: Groups acting on specific manifolds

57S15: Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations

55S35: Obstruction theory in algebraic topology

15A18: Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors

57R20: Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology

15A21: Canonical forms, reductions, classification

57Q50: Microbundles and block bundles

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