Free transformations of S^1 S^n of square-free odd period

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2017.66.6140MaRDI QIDQ4599324zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Qayum Khan

Publication date 29 December 2017

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0699

zbMATH Keywords

ideal class groupcovering spacealgebraic surgerymanifold classification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Finite transformation groups (57S17) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65) Finiteness and other obstructions in (K_0) (19J05)

Abstract: Let $n$ be a positive integer, and let $ell>1$ be square-free odd. We classify the set of equivariant homeomorphism classes of free $C_{e}ll$-actions on the product $S^{1}imes{S}^n$ of spheres, up to indeterminacy bounded in $ell$. The description is expressed in terms of number theory. The techniques are various applications of surgery theory and homotopy theory, and we perform a careful study of $h$-cobordisms. The $ell=2$ case was completed by B Jahren and S Kwasik (2011). The new issues for the case of $ell$ odd are the presence of nontrivial ideal class groups and a group of equivariant self-equivalences with quadratic growth in $ell$. The latter is handled by the composition formula for structure groups of A Ranicki (2009).

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