Transformation Groups, Poznan 1985 : proceedings of a symposium held in Poznan, July 5-9, 1985 / / edited by S. Jackowski and K. Pawałowski

• Record Nr.: UNISA996466385803316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin : , : Springer-Verlag, , 1986
• ISBN: 3-540-47097-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1986.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XVI, 400 p.)
• Collana: Lecture notes in mathematics ; ; 1217
• Classificazione: 57S15; 57S25; 57R20; 58G10
• Disciplina: 514
• Soggetti: Topological transformation groups
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Bounds on the torus rank -- The equivariant wall finiteness obstruction and Whitehead torsion -- Homotopy actions and cohomology of finite groups -- Normally linear Poincaré complexes and equivariant splittings -- Free (?/2)k-actions and a problem in commutative algebra -- Verschlingungszahlen von Fixpunktmengen in Darstellungsformen. II -- An algebraic approach to the generalized Whitehead group -- Almost complex S1-actions on cohomology complex projective spaces -- A product formula for equivariant Whitehead torsion and geometric applications -- Balanced orbits for fibre preserving maps of S1 and S3 actions -- Involutions on 2-handlebodies -- Normal combinatorics of G-actions on manifolds -- Topological invariance of equivariant rational Pontrjagin classes -- On the existence of acyclic ? complexes of the lowest possible dimension -- Unstable homotopy theory of homotopy representations -- Duality in orbit spaces -- Cyclic homology and idempotents in group rings -- ?2 surgery theory and smooth involutions on homotopy complex projective spaces -- Proper subanalytic transformation groups and unique triangulation of the orbit spaces -- A remark on duality and the Segal conjecture -- On the bounded and thin h-cobordism theorem parameterized by ?k -- Algebraic and geometric splittings of the K- and L-groups of ; polynomial extensions -- Coherence in homotopy group actions -- Existence of compact flat Riemannian manifolds with the first Betti number equal to zero -- Which groups have strange torsion?.