On finite groups acting on acyclic low-dimensional manifolds

DOI10.4064/FM215-3-1MaRDI QIDQ3100575zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessandra Guazzi, Mattia Mecchia, Bruno Zimmermann

Publication date 24 November 2011

Published in Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0999

zbMATH Keywords

finite group actionfinite simple groupacyclic manifold

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)

Abstract: We consider finite groups which admit a faithful, smooth action on an acyclic manifold of dimension three, four or five (e.g. euclidean space). Our first main result states that a finite group acting on an acyclic 3- or 4-manifold is isomorphic to a subgroup of the orthogonal group O(3) or O(4), respectively. The analogue remains open in dimension five (where it is not true for arbitrary continuous actions, however). We prove that the only finite nonabelian simple groups admitting a smooth action on an acyclic 5-manifold are the alternating groups A_5 and A_6, and deduce from this a short list of finite groups, closely related to the finite subgroups of SO(5), which are the candidates for orientation-preserving actions on acyclic 5-manifolds.

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