Timeline for Faithful actions of finite groups on topological spaces
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| May 11, 2011 at 12:23 | comment | added | HenrikRüping | maybe Ryan or David can repost this as an answer and close the question ? | |
| May 10, 2011 at 23:03 | comment | added | David Carchedi | @Ryan: Thanks. I'm glad to see that there is such a simple counter-example. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 18:57 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | I suspect the answer is yes for connected topological manifolds but I don't have an argument off the top of my head. These kinds of questions were investigated in the 60's as far as I know. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 17:47 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | The answer is no. Consider your space to be a wedge of a bunch of circles -- and don't use common wedge points. Then an involution can fix a neighbourhood of a point and still flip some of the circle wedge summands. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 17:37 | history | asked | David Carchedi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |