Characteristic submanifolds of fixed point free involutions

Stone, Ellen

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1975-0388424-8

Characteristic submanifolds of fixed point free involutions
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 49 (1975), 449-457 Request permission

Abstract:

According to López de Medrano, a manifold with a free involution is determined by its Browder-Livesay index and the normal cobordism class of its orbit space. Here we study the Browder-Livesay indices of some cobordant involutions, namely, the characteristic submanifolds of a fixed involution.

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