Cyclic group actions and embedded spheres in 4-manifolds

DOI10.1090/PROC/12707zbMATH Open1329.57026arXiv1406.2986OpenAlexW3105741642MaRDI QIDQ3450199FDOQ3450199

M. J. D. Hamilton

Publication date: 3 November 2015

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this note we derive an upper bound on the number of 2-spheres in the fixed point set of a smooth and homologically trivial cyclic group action of prime order on a simply-connected 4-manifold. This improves the a priori bound which is given by one half of the Euler characteristic of the 4-manifold. The result also shows that in some cases the 4-manifold does not admit such actions of a certain order at all or that any such action has to be pseudofree.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2986

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zbMATH Keywords

group actionfixed point set4-manifold\(G\)-signature theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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