A Characterization of the Sphere and Euclidean Space by Transformation Groups.
We describe the finite group actions, up to equivalence, which can act on the orbifold , and their quotient types. This is then used to consider actions on prism manifolds which preserve a longitudinal fibering, but do not leave any Heegaard Klein bottle invariant. If is such an action, we show that and fibers over a certain collection of 2-orbifolds with positive Euler characteristic which are covered by . For the standard actions, we compute the fundamental group of and indicate when...
Let G be a compact connected Lie group, K a closed subgroup and M = G/K the homogeneous space of right cosets. Suppose that M is orientable. We show that for any selfmap f: M → M, L(f) = 0 ⇒ N(f) = 0 and L(f) ≠ 0 ⇒ N(f) = R(f) where L(f), N(f), and R(f) denote the Lefschetz, Nielsen, and Reidemeister numbers of f, respectively. In particular, this implies that the Lefschetz number is a complete invariant, i.e., L(f) = 0 iff f is deformable to be fixed point free. This was previously known under...