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Smoothing finite group actions on three-manifolds

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  • UserJohn Pardon, Princeton
  • ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 16:00-17:00
  • HouseMR13.

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There exist continuous finite group actions on three-manifolds which are not smoothable, in the sense that they are not smooth with respect to any smooth structure. For example, Bing constructed an involution of the three-sphere whose fixed set is a wildly embedded two-sphere. However, one can still ask whether every continuous finite group action on a three-manifold can be uniformly approximated by a smooth action. We discuss an affirmative solution to this question, based on the author’s work on the Hilbert—Smith conjecture in dimension three.

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