Wiedersehen metrics and exotic involutions of Euclidean spheres

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2007.025MaRDI QIDQ3445255zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Uwe Abresch, Thomas Püttmann, A. Rigas, Carlos E. 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)

Abstract: We provide explicit, simple, geometric formulas for free involutions rho of Euclidean spheres that are not conjugate to the antipodal involution. Therefore the quotient S^n/rho is a manifold that is homotopically equivalent but not diffeomorphic to RP^n. We use these formulas for constructing explicit non-trivial elements in pi_1 Diff(S^5) and pi_1 Diff(S^13) and to provide explicit formulas for non-cancellation phenomena in group actions.

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