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Periodic maps on R7 without fixed points

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2002

RICHARD HAYNES
Affiliation:
Williams College, Williamstown, MA 02167, U.S.A.
SLAWOMIR KWASIK
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, U.S.A.
JERREL MAST
Affiliation:
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, U.S.A.
REINHARD SCHULTZ
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, U.S.A.

Abstract

In this paper we prove that R7 admits smooth periodic maps with no fixed points for every period that is not a prime power. Results of P. A. Smith show that such examples do not exist in any lower dimensions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2002 Cambridge Philosophical Society

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