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Involutions Fixing the Disjoint Union of Odd-Dimensional Projective Spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Duo Hou
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Hebei Teacher's University 050016 China
Bruce Torrence
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057 U.S.A.
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Abstract

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We show that any differentiable involution on a closed manifold whose fixed point set is a disjoint union of odd-dimensional real projective spaces must be a bounding involution.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1994

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