Smooth compact Lie group actions on disks (original) (raw)
1976, Mathematische Zeitschrift
In two earlier papers ([9] and [10]), the author studied smooth actions of finite groups on disks; in particular describing the fixed point sets (up to homotopy type) which can occur for such actions of any given finite group. The main result in was that for any finite group G not of prime power order, there exists an integer n o such that for any finite CW complex F, G has a smooth action on a disk with fixed point set having the homotopy type of F if and only if ;g(F) ~ 1 (mod no).
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