On -cobordisms of spherical space forms

Given a manifold of dimension at least 4 whose universal covering is homeomorphic to a sphere, the main result states that a compact manifold is isomorphic to a cylinder if and only if is homotopy equivalent to this cylinder and the boundary is isomorphic to two copies of ; this holds in the smooth, PL and topological categories. The result yields a classification of smooth, finite group actions on homotopy spheres (in dimensions ) with exactly two singular points.