Transformation Groups
Proceedings of the Conference in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, August 1976

This volume contains 25 of the papers submitted at the conference on transformation groups held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in August 1976.

Czes Kosniowski (Edited by)

9780521215091, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 February 1977

316 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.5 kg

The theory of transformation groups studies symmetries of various mathematical objects such as topological spaces, manifolds, polyhedra and function spaces. It is thus a central concept in many branches of mathematics. This volume contains 25 of the papers submitted at the conference on transformation groups held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in August 1976.

Part I: 1. Generators and relations for groups of homeomorphisms Herbert Abels
2. Affine embeddings of real Lie groups Nguiffo B. Boyom
3. Equivariant regular neighbourhoods Allan L. Edmonds
4. Characteristic numbers and equivariant spin cobordism V. Giambalvo
5. Equivariant K-theory and cyclic subgroups Stefan Jakowski
6. Z/p manifolds with low dimensional fixed point set Czes Kosniowski
7. Gaps in the relative degree of symmetry Hsu-Tung Ku and Mei-Chin Ku
8. Characters do not lie Arunas Liulevicius
9. Actions of Z/2n on S3 Gerhard X. Ritter
10. Periodic homeomorphisms on non-compact 3 manifolds Gerhard X. Ritter and Bradd E. Clark
11. Equivariant function spaces and equivariant stable homotopy theory Reinhard Schulz
12. A property of a characteristic class of an orbit foliation Haruo Suzuki
13. Orbit structure for Lie group actions on higher cohomology projective spaces Per Tomter
14. On the existence of group actions on certain manifolds Steven H. Weintraub
Part II. Summaries and Surveys: 15. Proper transformation groups H. Abels
16. Problems on group actions on Q manifolds R. D. Anderson
17. A non-abelian view of abelian varieties L. Auslander, B. Kolb and R. Tolimieri
18. Non compact Lie groups of transformation and invariant operator measures on homogenous spaces in Hilbert space M. P. Heble
19. Approximation of simplicial G-maps by equivariantly non degenerate maps Soren Illman
20. Equivariant Riemann–Roch type theorems and related topics Jatsuo Kawakubo
21. Knots and diffeomorphisms M. Kreck
22. Some remarks on free differentiable involuetions on homotopy spheres Peter Löffler
23. Compact transitive isometry spaces Gordon Lukesh
24. A problem of Breson concerning homology manifolds W. J. R. Mitchell.

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