Petrie conjecture
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1 Introduction
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Conjecture 0.1 [Petrie1972].
Suppose thatTex syntax erroris a closed smooth manifold homotopy equivalent to and that acts smoothly and non-trivially on
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Partial results confirming the Petrie conjecture go back to [Tsukada&Washiyama1979], [Dessai2001], and [Dessai&Wilking2003]
2 References
- [Dessai&Wilking2003] Template:Dessai&Wilking2003
- [Dessai2001] Template:Dessai2001
- [Petrie1972] T. Petrie, Smooth -actions on homotopy complex projective spaces and related topics, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 78 (1972), 105–153. MR0296970 Zbl 0247.57010
- [Petrie1973] T. Petrie, Torus actions on homotopy complex projective spaces, Invent. Math. 20 (1973), 139–146. MR0322893 (48 #1254) Zbl 0262.57021
- [Tsukada&Washiyama1979] E. Tsukada and R. Washiyama, -actions on cohomology complex projective spaces with three components of the fixed point sets, Hiroshima Math. J. 9 (1979), no.1, 41–46. MR529325 (80j:57043) Zbl 0411.57037