The linearisation conjecture for finite group actions on the 4-sphere
The linearisation conjecture for finite group actions on the 4-sphere
Let be a finite group acting smoothly on , and suppose the action has an isolated fixed point. The action is linear when it is smoothly conjugate to a linear action on the sphere.
Linearisation conjecture. Every smooth finite group action on with an isolated fixed point is smoothly conjugate to a linear action.
The question reduces, after removing an invariant neighborhood of the fixed point, to the corresponding problem for a smooth action on the -ball that is free and linear on the boundary. The preceding discussion relates it to the symplectic -cobordism problem for elliptic -manifolds; no resolution is supplied in the source.
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Primary source
Weimin Chen, “Group actions on 4-manifolds: some recent results and open questions”, arXiv:0912.2662 (2010).
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