Topological equivalence of linear representations for cyclic groups: II

DOI10.1515/FORM.2005.17.6.959MaRDI QIDQ5716251zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ian Hambleton, Erik K. Pedersen

Publication date 18 January 2006

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0109036

zbMATH Keywords

orthogonal representationsReidemeister torsiontopological equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(L)-theory of group rings (19G24) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Finite transformation groups (57S17)

Abstract: In the two parts of this paper we solve a problem of De Rham, proving that Reidemeister torsion invariants determine topological equivalence of linear G-representations, for G a finite cyclic group. Methods in controlled K-theory and surgery theory are developed to establish, and effectively calculate, a necessary and sufficient condition for non-linear similarity in terms of the vanishing of certain non-compact transfer maps. For cyclic groups of 2-power order, we obtain a complete classification of non-linear similarities.

Review text

Second part of the paper reviewed in (2005; Zbl 1081.57027). See the joint review below. This paper completes a programme initiated by \textit{G. de Rham} [Rec. Math. Moscou, N. Ser. 1, 737--743 (1936; Zbl 0016.04501, JFM 62.0662.04)] investigating the role Reidemeister torsion invariants play in determining nonlinear similarities between representations of a finite cyclic group \(G\). Two finite dimensional real orthogonal representations, \(V\) and \(V'\), of \(G\) are said to be topologically equivalent if there is a \(G\)-equivariant homeomorphism between them. This may happen without \(V\) and \(V'\) being linearly isomorphic, in which case the homeomorphism is called a nonlinear similarity. The results contained in the paper are numerous and intricate, but their essence is captured by the first theorem stated, which says that the existence of a nonlinear similarity is determined by certain congruences in the weights of the free summands of \(V\) and \(V'\), and the ratio of their Reidemeister torsions, up to an algebraically described indeterminacy.

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