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Group Actions on Manifolds

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Reinhard Schultz, Editor

Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year: 1985; Volume 36
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5038-1 (print); 978-0-8218-7621-3 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/036
MathSciNet review: 780951

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Articles

• Frank Raymond and Reinhard Schultz – The work and influence of Deane Montgomery [MR 780952]
• Reinhard Schultz – Bibliography of Deane Montgomery [MR 780953]
• Reinhard Schultz – Homotopy invariants and $G$-manifolds: a look at the past fifteen years [MR 780954]
• Ronald M. Dotzel – Splitting semifree finite group actions on homotopy spheres into solid tori [MR 780955]
• Sören Illman – Equivariant Whitehead torsion and actions of compact Lie groups [MR 780956]
• Christopher Allday – A family of unusual torus group actions [MR 780957]
• J.-P. Haeberly – For $G=S^1$ there is no $G$-Chern character [MR 780958]
• Peter Löffler and Reinhard Schultz – Equivariant frameability of homotopy linear $S^1$ actions on spheres [MR 780959]
• Benjamin M. Mann and Edward Y. Miller – Action maps on equivariant function spaces and applications to PL bordism [MR 780960]
• Alejandro Necochea – Borsuk-Ulam theorems for prime periodic transformation groups [MR 780961]
• Duane Randall – On equivariant maps of Stiefel manifolds [MR 780962]
• Sylvain E. Cappell and Julius L. Shaneson – Representations at fixed points [MR 780963]
• Karl Heinz Dovermann, Ted Petrie and Reinhard Schultz – Transformation groups and fixed point data [MR 780964]
• Mikiya Masuda and Ted Petrie – Lectures on transformation groups and Smith equivalence [MR 780965]
• Reinhard Schultz – Transformation groups and exotic spheres [MR 780966]
• Shmuel Weinberger – Constructions of group actions: a survey of some recent developments [MR 780967]
• Amir H. Assadi – Concordance of group actions on spheres [MR 780968]
• Eung Chun Cho and Dong Youp Suh – Induction in equivariant $K$-theory and $s$-Smith equivalence of representations [MR 780969]
• Eung Chun Cho – Smith equivalent representations of generalized quaternion groups [MR 780970]
• Dong Youp Suh – $s$-Smith equivalent representations of finite abelian groups [MR 780971]
• Yuh-Dong Tsai – Isotropy representations of nonabelian finite group actions [MR 780972]
• Allan L. Edmonds – Transformation groups and low-dimensional manifolds [MR 780973]
• Kyung Bai Lee and Frank Raymond – The role of Seifert fiber spaces in transformation groups [MR 780974]
• David Fried and Ronnie Lee – Realizing group automorphisms [MR 780975]
• Ronnie Lee and Steven H. Weintraub – Cohomology of a Siegel modular variety of degree $2$ [MR 780976]
• Hsü Tung Ku, Mei Chin Ku and L. N. Mann – Newman’s theorem and the Hilbert-Smith conjecture [MR 780977]
• H. Turner Laquer – Geometry, representation theory, and the Yang-Mills functional [MR 780978]
• Edited by R. Schultz – Problems submitted to the AMS summer research conference on group actions [MR 780979]