Finite subgroups of the homeomorphism group of a compact topological manifold are almost nilpotent
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Publication:6397693
arXiv2204.13375MaRDI QIDQ6397693FDOQ6397693
Laszló Pyber, Endre Szabó, Balázs Csikós
Publication date: 28 April 2022
Abstract: Around twenty years ago Ghys conjectured that finite subgroups of the diffeomorphism group of a compact smooth manifold M have an abelian normal subgroup of index at most a(M), where a(M) depends only on M. First we construct a family of counterexamples to this conjecture including, for example, the product space . Following the first appearance of our counterexample on the arXiv Ghys put forward a revised conjecture, which predicts only the existence of a nilpotent normal subgroup of index at most n(M). Our main result is the proof of the revised Ghys conjecture. More generally, we show that the same result holds for homeomorphism groups of not necessarily compact topological manifolds with finitely generated homology groups. Our proofs are based on finite group theoretic results which provide a general strategy for proving similar Jordan-type theorems.
Finite groups of transformations in algebraic topology (including Smith theory) (55M35) General structure theorems for groups (20E34)
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