The linearisation conjecture for finite group actions on the 4-sphere

Let GG be a finite group acting smoothly on S4\mathbb S^4, 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 S4\mathbb S^4 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 44-ball that is free and linear on the boundary. The preceding discussion relates it to the symplectic ss-cobordism problem for elliptic 33-manifolds; no resolution is supplied in the source.

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Weimin Chen, “Group actions on 4-manifolds: some recent results and open questions”, arXiv:0912.2662 (2010).

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