A remark about dihedral group actions on spheres Journal Articles

abstract

• We show that a finite dihedral group does not act pseudofreely and locally linearly on a 2k-dimensional sphere, if k > 1. This answers a question of R. S. Kulkarni from 1982.

authors

• Hambleton, Ian

status

• published 

publication date

• February 2011

has subject area

• 0101 Pure Mathematics (FoR)
• General Mathematics (Science Metrix)

published in

• Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society  Journal

keywords

• Mathematics
• Physical Sciences
• Science & Technology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1112/blms/bdq080

start page

• 75

end page

• 78

volume

• 43

issue

• 1