FREE ACTIONS OF SOME COMPACT GROUPS ON MILNOR MANIFOLDS

DEY, PINKA ; SINGH, MAHENDER

Glasgow mathematical journal, Tome 61 (2019) no. 3, pp. 727-742

Résumé

In this paper, we investigate free actions of some compact groups on cohomology real and complex Milnor manifolds. More precisely, we compute the mod 2 cohomology algebra of the orbit space of an arbitrary free Z2 and $\mathbb{S}^1$-action on a compact Hausdorff space with mod 2 cohomology algebra of a real or a complex Milnor manifold. As applications, we deduce some Borsuk–Ulam type results for equivariant maps between spheres and these spaces. For the complex case, we obtain a lower bound on the Schwarz genus, which further establishes the existence of coincidence points for maps to the Euclidean plane.

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DOI : 10.1017/S0017089518000484

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