Proceedings of the Second Conference on Compact Transformation Groups. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1971: Part 1 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

Invariants for semi-free s 1 -actions....Pages 1-13 Topological s 1 and Z 2k actions on spheres....Pages 14-18 Characteristic invariants of free differentiable actions of S 1 and S 3 on homotopy spheres....Pages 19-40 Differentiable pseudo-free circle actions on homotopy seven spheres....Pages 41-101 Semifree circle actions with twisted fixed point sets....Pages 102-116 Z 2 -torus actions on homotopy spheres....Pages 117-118 Free and semi-free smooth actions of S 1 and S 3 on homotopy spheres....Pages 119-130 Cobordism of involutions revisited....Pages 131-151 Bemerkungen Über Äquivariante Euler-klassen....Pages 152-162 Existence of fixed points....Pages 163-169 Cobordism of line bundles with restricted characteristic class....Pages 170-171 Unitary bordism of monogenic groups and isometries....Pages 172-182 Quillen's theorem for MU....Pages 183-190 Equivariant characteristic numbers....Pages 191-216 Cobordism of diffeomorphisms of (k-1)-connected 2k-manifolds....Pages 217-227 The index of manifolds with toral actions and geometric interpretations of the σ(∞, (S 1 , M n )) invariant of atiyah and singer....Pages 228-233 Involutions on homotopy complex projective spaces and related topics....Pages 234-259 On the homology of weighted homogeneous manifolds....Pages 260-269 Equivariant resolution of singularities with C* action....Pages 270-290 Strange circle actions on products of odd dimensional spheres, and rational homotopy....Pages 291-299 Examples of actions on manifolds almost diffeomorphic to V n+1,2 ....Pages 300-313 On unitary and sympletic knot manifolds....Pages 314-315 A classification of 6-manifolds with free S 1 actions....Pages 316-323 SU(n) actions on manifolds with vanishing first and second integral pontrjagin classes....Pages 324-333 On the splitting principle and the geometric weight system of topological transformation groups I....Pages 334-402 Equivariant singular homology and cohomology for actions of compact lie groups....Pages 403-415 Cyclic branched covers and o(n)-manifolds....Pages 416-429 Degree of symmetry of closed manifolds....Pages 430-436 Transfer homomorphisms of whitehead groups of some cyclic groups, II....Pages 437-440 Surgery on four-manifolds and topological transformation groups....Pages 441-453