Transformation Groups: Proceedings of a Conference, held in Osaka, Japan, Dec. 16-21, 1987 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1375)

K. Kawakubo (ed.). The International Conference On Transformation Groups Was Held At Osaka University From December 16 To December 21, 1987--pref. Includes Bibliographical References. A personal perspective of differentiable transformation groups....Pages 1-5 Smooth SL(2,C) actions on the 3-sphere....Pages 6-15 "On finite domination and simple homotopy type of nonsimply-connected G-spaces"....Pages 16-32 Modification of linking in representation forms....Pages 33-41 Linking in cyclic representation forms....Pages 42-47 The abhyankar-moh problem in dimension 3....Pages 48-59 The generalized whitehead torsion of a g fibre homotopy equivalence....Pages 60-88 Circle actions on symplectic manifolds....Pages 89-97 The isomorphism class of a representation of a compact lie group is determined by the equivariant simple-homotopy type of the representation....Pages 98-110 The equivariant whitehead torsions of equivariant homotopy equivalences between the unit spheres of representations of cyclic groups....Pages 111-125 On the characteristic numbers of unitary semi-free S 1 -manifolds....Pages 126-131 Conformal circle actions on 3-manifolds....Pages 132-144 Untwisted deform-spun knots: Examples of symmetry-spun 2-knots....Pages 145-167 On some abelian complex reflection groups....Pages 168-182 G-s -cobordism theorems do not hold in general for many compact lie groups G ....Pages 183-190 Congruences for the burnside ring....Pages 191-197 The pontrjagin numbers of an orbit map and generalized G-signature theorem....Pages 198-206 Seifert manifolds modelled on principal bundles....Pages 207-215 Equivariant pseudo-isotopies and K −I ....Pages 216-230 A product formula for connected sum....Pages 231-239 Most of the standard spheres have one fixed point actions of A 5 ....Pages 240-258 Semilinear G-spheres and homotopy representation groups....Pages 259-268 Connective K-theory of elementary abelian groups....Pages 269-275 Normal representations over the connected components of fixed point sets....Pages 276-290 Realization of the symmetry groups of links....Pages 291-306 Pontryagin numbers and periodic diffeomorphisms of spheres....Pages 307-318 Actions by isometries....Pages 319-325 Free actions by p-groups on products of spheres and yagita’s invariant po(G)....Pages 326-338 On extensions of non-linear actions on spheres....Pages 339-346 Symmetries of simply-connected four-manifolds, especially algebraic surfaces....Pages 347-367 The ring structure of U*(Z p )....Pages 368-380 Fixed-point free SU(n)-actions....Pages 381-394