A remark about dihedral group actions on spheres

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDQ080MaRDI QIDQ3078340zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ian Hambleton

Publication date 18 February 2011

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2641

zbMATH Keywords

dihedral groupsKulkarnipseudofree actionspheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Chain complexes in algebraic topology (55U15) Finite transformation groups (57S17) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: We show that a finite dihedral group does not act pseudofreely and locally linearly on a 2k-dimensional sphere, if k > 1. This answers a question of R. S. Kulkarni from 1982.

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