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Manifolds with no periodic homeomorphisms
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 202 (1975), 67-78 Request permission

Abstract:

An analysis of the ends of the universal cover of the connected sum of two aspherical manifolds leads to the construction of a class of closed manifolds with no nontrivial periodic homeomorphisms.
References
  • P. E. Conner and Frank Raymond, Manifolds with few periodic homeomorphisms, Proceedings of the Second Conference on Compact Transformation Groups (Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., 1971) Lecture Notes in Math., Vol. 299, Springer, Berlin, 1972, pp. 1–75. MR 0358835
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Additional Information
  • © Copyright 1975 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 202 (1975), 67-78
  • MSC: Primary 57E25
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1975-0358842-7
  • MathSciNet review: 0358842