The dimension of spheres with smooth one fixed point actions

Anthony Bak; Masaharu Morimoto

doi:10.1515/form.2005.17.2.199

The dimension of spheres with smooth one fixed point actions

Anthony Bak, Masaharu Morimoto

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	199-216
Number of pages	18
Journal	Forum Mathematicum
Volume	17
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/form.2005.17.2.199
Publication status	Published - Mar 2005

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Bak, A., & Morimoto, M. (2005). The dimension of spheres with smooth one fixed point actions. Forum Mathematicum, 17(2), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.1515/form.2005.17.2.199

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