Transformation Groups Poznań 1985: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Poznań, July 5–9, 1985

C. Allday, V. Puppe (auth.), Stefan Jackowski, Krzysztof Pawałowski (eds.)9780387168241, 0-387-16824-9

Table of contents :
Bounds on the torus rank….Pages 1-10
The equivariant wall finiteness obstruction and Whitehead torsion….Pages 11-25
Homotopy actions and cohomology of finite groups….Pages 26-57
Normally linear Poincaré complexes and equivariant splittings….Pages 58-78
Free (ℤ/2) k -actions and a problem in commutative algebra….Pages 79-83
Verschlingungszahlen von Fixpunktmengen in Darstellungsformen. II….Pages 84-91
An algebraic approach to the generalized Whitehead group….Pages 92-114
Almost complex S 1 -actions on cohomology complex projective spaces….Pages 115-122
A product formula for equivariant Whitehead torsion and geometric applications….Pages 123-142
Balanced orbits for fibre preserving maps of S 1 and S 3 actions….Pages 143-150
Involutions on 2-handlebodies….Pages 151-166
Normal combinatorics of G-actions on manifolds….Pages 167-182
Topological invariance of equivariant rational Pontrjagin classes….Pages 183-195
On the existence of acyclic Γ complexes of the lowest possible dimension….Pages 196-209
Unstable homotopy theory of homotopy representations….Pages 210-248
Duality in orbit spaces….Pages 249-252
Cyclic homology and idempotents in group rings….Pages 253-257
ℤ 2 surgery theory and smooth involutions on homotopy complex projective spaces….Pages 258-289
Proper subanalytic transformation groups and unique triangulation of the orbit spaces….Pages 290-302
A remark on duality and the Segal conjecture….Pages 303-305
On the bounded and thin h-cobordism theorem parameterized by ℝ k ….Pages 306-320
Algebraic and geometric splittings of the K- and L-groups of polynomial extensions….Pages 321-363
Coherence in homotopy group actions….Pages 364-390
Existence of compact flat Riemannian manifolds with the first Betti number equal to zero….Pages 391-393
Which groups have strange torsion?….Pages 394-396