Finite groups of diffeomorphisms are topologically determined by a vector field

DOI10.1007/S13398-020-00864-WMaRDI QIDQ2185012zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonio Viruel, Francisco-Javier Turiel

Publication date 4 June 2020

Published in Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Serie A: Matemáticas. RACSAM (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05840

zbMATH Keywords

continuous flowfinite diffeomorphims grouphomeomorphisms grouptopological manifoldvector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving smooth mappings and diffeomorphisms (37C05) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Finite transformation groups (57S17)

Abstract: In a previous work it is shown that every finite group $G$ of diffeomorphisms of a connected smooth manifold $M$ of dimension $geq2$ equals, up to quotient by the flow, the centralizer of the group of smooth automorphisms of a $G$-invariant complete vector field $X$ (shortly $X$ describes $G$). Here the foregoing result is extended to show that every finite group of diffeomorphisms of $M$ is described, within the group of all homeomorphisms of $M$, by a vector field. As a consequence, it is proved that a finite group of homeomorphisms of a compact connected topological $4$-manifold, whose action is free, is described by a continuous flow.

Review text

Let \(M^m\) be a \(C^\infty\) manifold with \(m\ge2\) and \(G\) a finite group of diffeomorphisms of \(M\). Then there is a complete \(G\)-invariant vector field \(X\) on \(M\) such that \(G\times\mathbb R\to\mathrm{Aut}_0(X)\) given by \((g,t)\mapsto g\Phi_t\) is a group isomorphism, where \(\Phi\) is the flow and Aut\(_0(X)\) is the group of continuous automorphisms of \(X\), i.e., the group of homeomorphisms of \(M\) mapping integral curves of \(X\) to integral curves of \(X\). It is here proved that if \(M^4\) is a closed, connected topological manifold and \(G\) is a finite group of homeomorphisms of \(M\) acting freely then there is a continuous flow that determines \(G\).

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