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On isolated fixed points of group actions on poincaré complexes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

J. P. E. Hodgson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Adelphi University, Garden CityN. Y., 11530, U.S.A.
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Abstract

In this paper it is shown that a simplicial action of Zp (p a prime) on an n-dimensional simplicial complex which is a Poincaré duality space of formal dimension n for Zp coefficients cannot have just one isolated fixed point.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1974

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