Pseudofree group actions on spheres

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-10-10339-6zbMATH Open1190.57022arXiv0906.1529MaRDI QIDQ3566686FDOQ3566686

Authors: Allan L. Edmonds 

Publication date: 8 June 2010

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

group actionspheredihedral grouppseudofree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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