Abelian group actions on algebraic varieties with one fixed point

Dedicated to the memory of Ed Floyd with admiration and friendship     

Polar actions with a fixed point

We prove a criterion for an isometric action of a Lie group on a Riemannian manifold to be polar. From this criterion, it follows that an action with a fixed point is polar if and only if the slice representation at the fixed point is polar and the section is the tangent space of an embedded totally geodesic submanifold. We apply this to obtain a classification of polar actions with a fixed point on symmetric spaces.     

Most standard spheres have smooth one fixed point actions ofA5. II

This paper proves that all standard spheresS ⁿ of dimension n=6 orn 9 have smooth one fixed point actions of the alternating groupA ₅ on five letters.Partially supported by the Yukawa Foundation, and also by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 01740048.     

On periodic solvable groups having automorphisms with nilpotent fixed point groups

Letp be a prime,G a periodic solvablep′-group acted on by an elementary groupV of orderp ². We show that ifC _G(v) is abelian for eachv ∈V ^# thenG has nilpotent derived group, and ifp=2 andC _G(v) is nilpotent for eachv ∈V ^# thenG is metanilpotent. Earlier results of this kind were known only for finite groups.     

Group actions on metric spaces: fixed points and free subgroups

We look at group actions on graphs and other metric spaces, e. g., at group actions on geodesic hyperbolic spaces. We classify the types of automorphisms on these spaces and prove several results about the density of the hyperbolic limit set of the group in the whole limit set of the group.     

On the homotopy fixed point sets of circle actions on product spaces

Archiv der Mathematik - For arbitrary $$S^{1}$$ -actions on $$S^{m}_{{\mathbb {Q}}}$$ , $$S^{n}_{{\mathbb {Q}}}$$ , and $$S^{m}_{{\mathbb {Q}}}\times S^{n}_{{\mathbb {Q}}}$$ , we show the...     

Rational homotopy of the (homotopy) fixed point sets of circle actions

In this paper, when G is the circle S¹ and M is a G-space, we study the rational homotopy type of the fixed point set MG, the homotopy fixed point set MhG, and the natural injection MG→MhG.     

Some generalizations of fixed point theorems and common fixed point theorems

We present some fixed point theorems and common fixed point theorems which generalize and unify previous known results.