Wiedersehen metrics and exotic involutions of Euclidean spheres

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2007.025zbMath1125.57017arXivmath/0501091WikidataQ125056987 ScholiaQ125056987MaRDI QIDQ3445255

Uwe Abresch, Thomas Püttmann, A. Rigas, Carlos Eduardo Durán

Publication date: 8 June 2007

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501091

zbMATH Keywords

exotic involutionsnon-cancellation phenomena in group actionsWiedersehen metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Finite transformation groups (57S17) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55)

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