Stationary points for finite transformation groups

Stationary Points of Transformation Groups.

Varieties in Finite Transformation Groups

The equivariant cohomology ring of a G-space X defines a homogeneous affine variety. Quillen [Q] and W. Y. Hsiang [Hs] have determined the relation between such varieties and the family of isotropy subgroups as well as their fixed point sets when dim X < oo. In modular representation theory, J. Carlson [Cj] introduced cohomological support varieties and rank varieties (the latter depending on t...

Minimal Transformation Groups with Distal Points

The purpose of this department is to provide early announcement of significant new results, with some indications of proof. Although ordinarily a research announcement should be a brief summary of a paper to be published in full elsewhere, papers giving complete proofs of results of exceptional interest are also solicited. Manuscripts more than eight typewritten double spaced pages long will no...

Fixed Points of Finite Groups Acting on Generalised Thompson Groups

We study centralisers of finite order automorphisms of the generalised Thompson groups Fn,∞ and conjugacy classes of finite subgroups in finite extensions of Fn,∞. In particular we show that centralisers of finite automorphisms in Fn,∞ are either of type FP∞ or not finitely generated. As an application we deduce the following result about the Bredon type of such finite extensions: any finite ex...

FINITE EXTENSIONS OF MINIMAL TRANSFORMATION GROUPS ( i )

In this paper we shall study homomorphisms p: W — Y on minimal transformation groups. We shall prove, in the case that W and Y are metrizable, that W is a finite (iV-to-1) extension of Y if and only if W is an Nfold covering space of Y and pisa covering map. This result places no further restrictions on the acting group. We shall then use this characterization to investigate the question of lif...