Fixed Point Sets and the Fundamental Group II: Euler Characteristics

MaRDI QIDQ6352467zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sylvain Cappell, Shmuel Weinberger, Min Yan

Publication date 28 October 2020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant PL-topology (57Q91)

Abstract: For a group $G$ of not prime power order, Oliver showed that the obstruction for a finite CW-complex $F$ to be the fixed point set of a contractible finite $G$-CW-complex is the Euler characteristic $chi(F)$. He also has the similar results for compact Lie group actions. We show that the analogous problem for $F$ to be the fixed point set of a finite $G$-CW-complex of some given homotopy type is still determined by the Euler characteristic. Using trace maps in $K_0$, we also see that there are interesting roles for the fundamental group and the component structure of the fixed point set.

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