Transformation Groups: Proceedings of a Conference held in Osaka, Japan, Dec. 16–21, 1987

Wu-chung Hsiang (auth.), Katsuo Kawakubo (eds.)9783540512189, 3540512187, 0387512187

Table of contents :
A personal perspective of differentiable transformation groups….Pages 1-5
Smooth SL(2,C) actions on the 3-sphere….Pages 6-15
“On finite domination and simple homotopy type of nonsimply-connected G-spaces”….Pages 16-32
Modification of linking in representation forms….Pages 33-41
Linking in cyclic representation forms….Pages 42-47
The abhyankar-moh problem in dimension 3….Pages 48-59
The generalized whitehead torsion of a g fibre homotopy equivalence….Pages 60-88
Circle actions on symplectic manifolds….Pages 89-97
The isomorphism class of a representation of a compact lie group is determined by the equivariant simple-homotopy type of the representation….Pages 98-110
The equivariant whitehead torsions of equivariant homotopy equivalences between the unit spheres of representations of cyclic groups….Pages 111-125
On the characteristic numbers of unitary semi-free S 1 -manifolds….Pages 126-131
Conformal circle actions on 3-manifolds….Pages 132-144
Untwisted deform-spun knots: Examples of symmetry-spun 2-knots….Pages 145-167
On some abelian complex reflection groups….Pages 168-182
G-s -cobordism theorems do not hold in general for many compact lie groups G ….Pages 183-190
Congruences for the burnside ring….Pages 191-197
The pontrjagin numbers of an orbit map and generalized G-signature theorem….Pages 198-206
Seifert manifolds modelled on principal bundles….Pages 207-215
Equivariant pseudo-isotopies and K −I ….Pages 216-230
A product formula for connected sum….Pages 231-239
Most of the standard spheres have one fixed point actions of A 5 ….Pages 240-258
Semilinear G-spheres and homotopy representation groups….Pages 259-268
Connective K-theory of elementary abelian groups….Pages 269-275
Normal representations over the connected components of fixed point sets….Pages 276-290
Realization of the symmetry groups of links….Pages 291-306
Pontryagin numbers and periodic diffeomorphisms of spheres….Pages 307-318
Actions by isometries….Pages 319-325
Free actions by p-groups on products of spheres and yagita’s invariant po(G)….Pages 326-338
On extensions of non-linear actions on spheres….Pages 339-346
Symmetries of simply-connected four-manifolds, especially algebraic surfaces….Pages 347-367
The ring structure of U*(Z p )….Pages 368-380
Fixed-point free SU(n)-actions….Pages 381-394