Pseudofree group actions on spheres

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-10-10339-6MaRDI QIDQ3566686zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Allan L. Edmonds

Publication date 8 June 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1529

zbMATH Keywords

group actionspheredihedral grouppseudofree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite transformation groups (57S17) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: R. S. Kulkarni showed that a finite group acting pseudofreely, but not freely, preserving orientation, on an even-dimensional sphere (or suitable sphere-like space) is either a periodic group acting semifreely with two fixed points, a dihedral group acting with three singular orbits, or one of the polyhedral groups, occurring only in dimension 2. It is shown here that the dihedral group does not act pseudofreely and locally linearly on an actual n-sphere when n is congruent to 0 mod 4. The possibility of such an action when n is congruent to 2 mod 4 and n>2 remains open. Orientation-reversing actions are also considered.

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