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The dimension of spheres with smooth one fixed point actions

  • Anthony Bak and Masaharu Morimoto
From the journal Forum Mathematicum

Abstract

The article proves that there are smooth one fixed point actions of the alternating group of degree 5 on the 8-dimensional sphere. It follows that a sphere has a smooth one fixed point action of some finite group if and only if the dimension of the sphere is greater than or equal to 6.

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Published Online: 2005-07-27
Published in Print: 2005-03-11

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